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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process): ...

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-side ...

(Such support won’t be available to mortals until the JavaFX 1.1 release, but that should be coming soon enough.) And with that ease of development, why, nobody would ever need Java ME ever again, ...

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