Making RIA with Java FX 2.0

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As far as Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are concerned, the major player for the last decade has been Flash, and its successor Flex. Silverlight has had its supporters as well, and HTML5 is moving the ball forward from AJAX and CSS. And then there's Java.

After a brief stint of popularity, Java applets fell out of style, and even sites that used Java in the back-end rarely used it on the client side. JavaFX, now in its second generation, is an attempt to bring Java back onto the client side, and Jim Weaver is a big fan. Founder of JMentor, Weaver thinks that JavaFX brings a rich programming environment to the client, he'll be talking about that at OSCON later this month. He recently clued us in on why he thinks JavaFX is such a strong contender. More...