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Dustin Marx: The Continuing Struggles of JavaFX

Dustin Marx talks about The Continuing Struggles of JavaFX:

In the post O JavaFX, What Art Thou? I publicly posted questions about JavaFX that largely pertain to its future.  As I stated in that post, I had felt somewhat deceived by Sun's overhasty JavaFX marketing at 2007 JavaOne and 2008 JavaOne and wasted more time than I like to waste looking into what JavaFX was (or in most cases, was supposed to become).  I have hesitated to really invest time and effort into it a third time until I feel better about its future.  Since posting O JavaFX,What Art Thou? there's been little to make me feel more optimistic about JavaFX's future.  This week, there was a major piece of bad press for JavaFX. In his blog post JavaFX is a Train Wreck, Kirill Grouchnikov expresses frustration at JavaFX not delivering on early promises to make it easy for developers and designers to work together to build compelling user interfaces with JavaFX...