JavaFX 2.0.2 and successor SDKs let you deploy JavaFX applications in multiple environments including as a standalone app, via Java Web Start, or embedded in a web page. Jeff Friesen follows up ...

Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boost Java's waning relevance for client ...

Sun throws JavaFX hat into Web app ring Programmers now can start trying out JavaFX for writing rich Internet applications--and seeing if it's worth using over Adobe's Flash and other alternatives.

But it faces quite a battle in the space against the established Adobe Flash and AJAX platforms and Microsoft's up-and-coming Silverlight.

No date has been set for a general release. JavaFX differs from Sun’s Project Flair, which also proposes an alternative to AJAX, in that Flair is based on JavaScript but JavaFX is not.

Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice ...

Sun demos two new JavaFX-powered applications — Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud — at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president ...

Jeff Friesen on why JavaFX developers have reason to question current thinking that says native apps are out of the game, and why it's time to let the Java Plug-in go.

JavaFX is designed to run either inside or outside of a client Web browser. As John Waters reports, systems equipped with the Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 can run JavaFX apps. The JavaFX Mobile ...

The JavaFX Mobile runtime, expected in the spring of 2009, will enable app development for handheld devices and smartphones. Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz points to Java's open source ...