JavaFX headlines JavaOne

Sun has joined the club of companies building platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms with JavaFX. The company hopes to give Java, which is in the process of being open sourced by Sun, a boost with the FX twist, joining Adobe's Flash and Apollo and Microsoft's Silverlight as a scripting environments for creating RIA Web experiences across various devices. With 5 million Java developers, Sun is not starting from scratch in building a JavaFX following, and Sun plans to release the source code the JavaFX Script into the open source wild. The company also hopes that the 2 billion phones that run the Java Mobile Edition (Java ME) will be an advantage.

James Gosling, the father of Java and a Sun Fellow, described JavaFX as "oriented around interfaces that are highly animated." JavaFX can also eliminate some of the security and compatibility issues related to AJAX-based applications.  

Coming up are video interviews with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun about JavaFX and related topics as the JavaOne conference gets underway.

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