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Sun sneaks JavaFX Mobile into desktop FX

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 2 comments
The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Sun Microsystems, it is generally felt, lost the desktop to Microsoft a long time ago. Aware of this, Sun in recent years evangelized mobile as Java's habitat - mobile is, after all, where Microsoft's at its weakest. It's with great ceremony, then, that Sun's marking the fact it comprehensively missed that JavaFX Mobile deadline by returning to the desktop with the scheduled launch today of JavaFX Desktop 1.0 - now just JavaFX 1.0. Linux, meanwhile, is the new Java for mobile it seems. Linux looks set to grow in the mobile space, with ABI Research last year predicting there'd be more than 127 million devices using Linux by 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007.

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I thought it could be fun to take a look at JavaFX, but it turned out to be available for Windows and Mac only. So at the moment they have worse cross-platform compatibility than Flash, and even Silverlight (if the Moonlight beta can be counted - it just crashed Firefox for me, at each startup until I disabled it, so perhaps not).

They are promising Linux support, though.
A bit of googling took me to a page that had details on how to run JavaFX SDK on Linux/Solaris. I think the problem they are having right now on Linux and Solaris are to do with video and hardware graphics acceleration.

"If you want to give it a go, download the zip version for Mac OS and unpack it. Then you'll need to set JAVAFX_HOME to point to the Java FX directory and add $JAVAFX_HOME/bin to your path. You should then be good to go. I tried all the supplied samples and they all worked fine."

Or try this: http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/08/05/watch_javafx_sdk_run...

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