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		Dominic Da Silva Dominic Da Silva is the President of SilvaSoft, Inc., a Professional Software Development Solutions and IT Consulting Services company. He specializes in Web, Web Services and Enterprise application development utilizing Java, J2EE/EE and Open Source technologies. He has developed numerous applications with Struts, Spring, Seam, JSF and other Open Source Java frameworks. He is also enjoys working in the Ruby/JRuby/Rails world and has written articles for Amazon Web Services and Developer.com on the subjects. Born on the beautiful caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, he now makes his home in sunny Orlando, Florida. Dominic Da Silva's blog JavaFX finally peaks my interest Posted by dsuspense on April 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM PDT So I headed to the Orlando JUG meeting tonight for a talk by Jim Clarke on JavaFX. Needless to say I was impressed with not only the JavaFX language and what Jim was able to do in the short space of time of 2 hours. The kicker for me was being able to drag an in-browser JavaFX applet out of the browser and have it run standalone on the desktop, in its on JVM sandbox, even after the browser is closed. Seamless transition of an app from a browser to the desktop is something JavaFX I believe has over Silverlight and Adobe Flex/Air. I am definitely interested to get my hands on Jim's forthcoming book and seeing what JavaFX has to offer as it matures. Maybe JavaFX can have a good future with the right marketing and the support of the community. » Login or register to post comments 199 visits Printer-friendly version Comments Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first) Submitted by dsuspense on Fri, 2009-04-24 04:11. Yes correct, Jim did mention that feature was only available for JRE 6u10 and above. Thanks for the clarification on that. Either way, seamless transition from web to desktop is really a big plus in my eyes. Login or register to post comments Submitted by tackline on Fri, 2009-04-24 00:28. The drag-an-applet feature is a feature of the JRE (6u10+) not (particularly) of JavaFX. Login or register to post comments Submitted by drlaszlojamf on Mon, 2009-04-27 10:52. Come back home applets! All is forgiven! Login or register to post comments Submitted by gkbrown on Mon, 2009-04-27 08:38. Check out the "Kitchen Sink" Pivot demo. This page shows the demo running as an applet, and there is a link to launch the same application via Web Start right below it: http://cwiki.apache.org/PIVOT/kitchen-sink-demo.html Granted, it's not exactly the same as dragging the applet out of the page (which may work - I haven't actually tried it) but the end result is similar - the same codebase is used to launch the application as an applet and on the desktop. Login or register to post comments Submitted by araxia on Thu, 2009-05-21 16:43. FWIW, s/peaks/piques Login or register to post comments		Categories Web Services and XML J2EE Web Applications Business Archives April 2009 March 2009 August 2006 June 2006 Recent Entries JavaFX finally peaks my interest Unemployed? Get Flex Builder Pro for Free Bookpool.com is gone?