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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
JavaFX Mobile and Script, expanding Java's reach
More commentary:
JavaFX : the missed opportunity from Sun
Sun's JavaFX Hopes to Give Cellphones and J2ME an Extra Kick
Sun Revamps Its 'Java Everywhere' Message
'Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java' sounds like Sun wants to take on Flash Lite, as it's becoming increasingly a 'PitA' of Sun. Adobe gets more media attention, and Java ME is almost considered a gray old technology not fit for modern services. This is of course not true, as we've just started to scratch the surface of using MIDlets as frontends to mobile services, being much more versatile than e.g. Flash Lite and WML when it comes to interaction with phone features. Not even the industry seems to realize how ubiquitous CLDC/MIDP has become, and Sun has in my opinion done a lousy job marketing that fact.
What's needed though is a simpler way to create applications, as web designer that are asked to go mobile would have a hard time learning to develop MIDlets.
JavaFX Script is supposedly very similar to Java, making it an easy transition for existing Java developers.
Note that JavaFX Mobile and Script are two very different things, as seen in the quotes below:
'JavaFX Mobile, a package aimed at mobile-handset makers designed to make Java applications more portable across mobile phones.'
Excellent. We need that.
'In the process, Sun intends to "attack" the notion that it is being outpaced in the field of rich Internet applications'
They are right about that, notion-wise.
'"It should be the sweet spot for Java. It's kind of tragic that Sun screwed up so badly with the applet performance and browser incompatibility in the late 1990s," he said. "JavaFX Script has an opportunity to redeem themselves."'
'A shrinked-down version of Java, called Java Platform, Mobile Edition (Java ME), is already installed on 2 billion phones worldwide, said Green.'
A few months ago it was 1.5 billion. Is he exaggerating?
'The JavaFX Mobile is technology that Sun gained through the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of SavaJe, a start-up that created software for writing uniform applications on Java phones.'
Good that the technology comes to use. It didn't in the hands of SavaJe.
JavaFX : the missed opportunity from Sun
Sun's JavaFX Hopes to Give Cellphones and J2ME an Extra Kick
Sun Revamps Its 'Java Everywhere' Message
'Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java' sounds like Sun wants to take on Flash Lite, as it's becoming increasingly a 'PitA' of Sun. Adobe gets more media attention, and Java ME is almost considered a gray old technology not fit for modern services. This is of course not true, as we've just started to scratch the surface of using MIDlets as frontends to mobile services, being much more versatile than e.g. Flash Lite and WML when it comes to interaction with phone features. Not even the industry seems to realize how ubiquitous CLDC/MIDP has become, and Sun has in my opinion done a lousy job marketing that fact.
What's needed though is a simpler way to create applications, as web designer that are asked to go mobile would have a hard time learning to develop MIDlets.
JavaFX Script is supposedly very similar to Java, making it an easy transition for existing Java developers.
Note that JavaFX Mobile and Script are two very different things, as seen in the quotes below:
'JavaFX Mobile, a package aimed at mobile-handset makers designed to make Java applications more portable across mobile phones.'
Excellent. We need that.
'In the process, Sun intends to "attack" the notion that it is being outpaced in the field of rich Internet applications'
They are right about that, notion-wise.
'"It should be the sweet spot for Java. It's kind of tragic that Sun screwed up so badly with the applet performance and browser incompatibility in the late 1990s," he said. "JavaFX Script has an opportunity to redeem themselves."'
'A shrinked-down version of Java, called Java Platform, Mobile Edition (Java ME), is already installed on 2 billion phones worldwide, said Green.'
A few months ago it was 1.5 billion. Is he exaggerating?
'The JavaFX Mobile is technology that Sun gained through the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of SavaJe, a start-up that created software for writing uniform applications on Java phones.'
Good that the technology comes to use. It didn't in the hands of SavaJe.
