Comments on: Underwhelmed by JavaFX 1.0

By: knuthy

knuthy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:18:21 +0000

For Mac OS X, it’s working like a charm with the latest update from Apple (which is not that new).

About performance problems, I really didn’t experience that, an update should solve the performance and the browser hangs up. For the three other points I agree with you.

As what we see in WPF (the MS way), Expression Design is replaced by Adobe Ai/Ps , the only problem is the lack of a soft that would replace Expression Blend… Implementing all the effects on a JavaFX application takes more time than in other technologies.

I hope that we’ll see some 3rd-party tools that will close the gaps.

By: Steven H.

Steven H. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:34:14 +0000

Your performance issues and incompatibility problems were linked. You really should upgrade to 1.6.10 as it includes a completely re-written browser plugin which improves performance on startup significantly and includes features such as drag out of the browser.

At this stage its windows only, but linux and solaris are being worked on as are Apple apparently on the OSX version.

By: Ivan Moscoso

Ivan Moscoso — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:57:43 +0000

@dario – I think the issue of ‘performance’ with regard to Java requires some classification. There’s performance of the JVM as measured by execution time (which since the 1.0 days, has been relegated to ‘myth’ status), and end-user responsiveness– a subjective measure not directly related to the JVM. Java on the desktop has suffered largely due to this second factor, wrong or right.

By: dario

dario — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:02:47 +0000

I find rotating cube that plays video quite impressive. And it loaded in just couple of seconds. In fact all examples loaded really quickly.

I don’t think that javafx is all that problematic (although I don’t care much about it and don’t think Sun needed this endeavour). I’d say too many people are too blind when it comes to java and applets. No matter what performance is, it will always be perceived as slow. And think before comapring serious platform with pathetic flash toy apps.

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:34:53 +0000

Exactly my feelings about JavaFX. It feels like 1995. Applets still dont load or take forever to do so, crash your browser and feel inferior to Flash.

I dont understand why so much money is invested in this.