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In my previous posts I wrote that JavaOne 2008 will be all about JavaFX. It looks like I am right. In this interview one of the leading developers for JavaFX (in this case its about JavaFX tools) Josh Mariancci talks about Rich Internet Applications and what we can expect from JavaFX. He also indicates new and exciting news will be revealed. My guess is that JavaFX gets a GUI builder like Adobe’s Flex Builder Netbeans Matisse. However, I also heard rumors about integrating JavaFX in existing Adobe products. Eclipse UI builder for JavaFX, that’s blasphemy!

James Weaver’s list of JavaFX Sessions at JavaOne 2008

It is expected that JavaOne 2008 is all about JavaFX (don’t forget JavaFX is not JavaFX Script) and the conference schedule substantiates this. In the last month it was pretty quiet about JavaFX. Some blog entries indicated that the developers were pretty busy to get the Java VM ready (Java 6 update n) and to further develop JavaFX and related projects, e.g. Scene Graph. However, JavaOne is coming up (about 3 weeks left) and so slowly new information is leaking.

At JavaOne a preview version of JavaFX will be presented and shortly after version 1.0. Infoworld and ZDnet

With the upcoming release, JavaFX’s performance is an issue. Joshua Maranacci’s Blog and JavaFX Compiler Milestone 2

Since April 1st (no it’s not again a bad joke) the Java SE 6 Update Beta build is available. For all you don’t know what this is about (yes, you two in the corner), here are the major features:

• Enhanced Java deployment: Deployment Toolkit, Java Kernel online installer, Java auto-updater, and server side requirements are removed.
• Improved performance: Java Quick Starter and Hardware acceleration support
• Improved Look&Feel: Nimbus
• Next generation plugin-in: Applets are back and rock

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