Comments on: J1 Session-Blog: Ajax vs. JavaFX Technology

By: TWAIN lover

TWAIN lover — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:32:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:33:01 +0000

To clarify: JavaFX provides no direct API support for 3D. It is nevertheless possible to invoke Java3D API from JavaFX, which is what the samples do (although unfortunately I haven\\\’t seen them running because they all bomb on my Mac.) However, I\\\’ve been reliably informed that 3D API is planned for FX… just don\\\’t know when.

By: August Lammersdorf

August Lammersdorf — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:24:12 +0000

@Argument #5 –> JavaFX provides comprehensive 3D graphics capabilities powered by Java 3D. See sample programs at http://www.interactivemesh.org/testspace/j3dmeetsjfx.html

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:32:07 +0000

I also attended this talk and I think the comparison was pretty lame. How can you pick two dyed-in-the-wool AJAX-guys pick for this talk. As an example, they never mentioned the programming model and how heterogeneous AJAX is compared to Java and JavaFX. Furthermore, Ben Galbraith who stood up for AJAX was way more eloquent than Don Almaer.
Apart from that, I learned that Lars Bak is now at Google working on the JavaScript engine for Chrome. Lars started improving the Smalltalk VM but switched to Java as it became popular and his company (Anamorphic I believe) was later taken over by Sun. The outcome was the Hotspot VM and maybe we will experience similar improvements for JavaScript.