I'll be covering JavaFX Mobile in my [[visit link] Learn JavaFX blog] as JavaFX Mobile materializes. Meanwhile, [[visit link] Sun's JavaFX Mobile website] is a good place to begin understanding their vision

Thanks, Jim Weaver

Puzzled,

You are exactly right about JavaFX Script making Swing easier to use. Here's an excerpt from a [[visit link] post from my Learning JavaFX blog] that addresses this, and some other JavaFX strengths: The following list describes some of the strengths of JavaFX Script:

* Its simple, declarative syntax used to express user interfaces, including a very rich set of layout widgets that make easy work of laying out a user interface in a platform-independent way. Content developers can create great looking, functional user interfaces without being expert programmers. * Its innate ability to support the model-view-controller pattern because of its very powerful bind capability. This complements and enables the declarative programming syntax because attributes of objects, including user interface objects, can be bound to values contained in model classes, often bidirectionally. * The concept of triggers (functionality that is automatically invoked when certain conditions take place, such as when the value of an attribute changes). This enables the declarative syntax as well, and makes UI development relatively easy, because setters and getters are replaced by triggers that are automatically invoked when the value of an attribute changes. * JavaFX programs will run anywhere Java programs will run, because they run within the context of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). There is a project underway, called the OpenJFX Compiler Project, whose mission is to create a compiler for JavaFX code that will turn it into JVM bytecode. When this is fully implemented, execution speeds of JavaFX Script will rival Java code. * Its very powerful syntax for defining, modifying, and querying sequences (think arrays).

A side benefit is that it is enables fast development of application prototypes. Another side benefit is that it would be a great language to use in schools to teach programming concepts.

Thanks, Jim Weaver

How about Java FX mobile?

Why do we need the JavaFX Script? Isn't Swing good enough? Or does JFX Script make Swing easier to use?