Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) today (May 8) unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing ...

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In most competitions cheating would be frowned upon, but among software developers, hacking the game is often a badge of honor. That’s one of the reasons Johan Vos is happy that the game he and his ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. joined Microsoft on an increasingly crowded playing field when it unveiled a new product line last month at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco. Called ...

On Thursday Sun released the production version of JavaFX, a new platform for building rich internet applications. Version 1.0 targets web browsers and desktops, but subsequent releases will be ...

We’ve discussed here before the brewing battle between Swing and JavaFX for the hearts and minds of desktop Java GUI developers. Will the two technologies develop in parallel, each with their own ...