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Trying out JavaFX (and the NetBeans JavaFX Plugin)

July 24, 2007 on 8:42 pm | | In Java, JavaFX, Netbeans, Software | 3 Comments

I took the news on the updated NetBeans plugin for JavaFX as impulse to try it out at last: JavaFX has been buzzing around for some months now. So long Adobe/Macromedia Flash has been the only choice for interactive graphically intensive and multimedia application. Well I know that there is SVG and SMIL, but I also know that those two can’t compete with Flash (I spare out a ‘yet’ … how long do we have to wait?). With JavaFX and Microsoft Silverlight there are two competitors on the scene. However I cannot try the latter one – I didn’t find an Ubuntu download JavaFX however is looking cool: The demo / tutorial from openjfx.dev.java.net shows a lot of nice effects and features.

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