Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 19:47 UTC, submitted by ahmetaa
There is a new scripting language in development called F3 from Sun, specifically designed for GUI programming. It allows designing Flash-like GUIs with ease and can call Java libraries directly. You can launch demos and get more information from the related blog.
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Although i agree it has advantages over flash, i think for this language to succeed Java2D needs more low level speed and resource usage improvements (like using simd instructions, direct access to opengl-directx pipeline) to keep up with Flash. Thats said, still i think this is a very good way of making appealing rich client applications (not browser) since it is integrated well with Java libraries.
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2005-07-12
Looks really really impressive.
To me, it's a much more attractive alternative to Flash, because of the following:
1. Flash is fully proprietary, Java is now GPL
2. Flash is a huge CPU hog.
3. Flash IDE/tools are very expensive, Netbeans (which I'm sure will have an F3 feature) is completely free
4. F3, running on a standard JRE, will have full access to the awesome Java APIs - Flash's APIs pale by comparisson.
BTW - with Java 6, Swing performance, LnF, and fonts are all greatly improved. Sun is starting to get serious about Java on the desktop.