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Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX
r7 writes "Internetnews is reporting on Sun's introduction of JavaFX at JavaOne today. Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. Does this really spell the end of AJAX? I sincerely hope so. Nothing built on Javascript will ever achieve the security, cross-platform reliability, and programmatic friendliness that Web 2.0 needs. Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in are also dead ends. JavaFX has the potential to satisfy this opportunity even better than did Java over a decade ago. Along with AJAX, let's hope JavaFX also puts paid to Microsoft's viral Active-X and JScript, and, more importantly, that it really is a web scripting language that developers can grok."
Write once, debug everywhere...
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
If this isn't the understatement of the year I'll eat my webapp.
security needs to happen on the server side, out of necessity
This implies that spam filtering also needs to happen on the server side... which will also defies logic.
I've programmed in dozens of languages, and few are as flexible and enjoyable as Javascript
Google astroturfing aside, all you can truthfully say in favor of javascript is that it is better than the language used by sendmail.cf. By better I mean easier to read, debug, and test.
The only reason anyone in their right mind would use javascript today is because it is the only option. Personally, I'm hoping JavaFX has something more like Python's syntax i.e, easily understood by someone who does not owe their employment to the understanding of it.
Correction: It will require end-users to install something SLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW.