Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space. At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun will roll out a Java-based product family ...

Sun released a fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java SE (Standard Edition) to the OpenJDK community on Tuesday, fulfilling the pledge it made at last year's JavaOne conference to free ...

Good old Java is back. But this time it's a little leaner and a whole lot meaner. It's the old Java mantra of "write once, run anywhere" all over again. It's also very close what Microsoft and Adobe ...

JavaFX 2 beta was released earlier this week. The main JavaFX download page states the following regarding this release: JavaFX 2.0 Beta is the latest major update release for JavaFX. Many of the new ...

On Tuesday Sun Microsystems unveiled a new consumer-oriented product line called JavaFX, which among other things has a new language for interactive user interfaces (JavaFX Script). Sound a little ...

Last week, Sun's (JAVA) CEO Jonathan Schwartz declared on his blog that Sun's JavaFX is "the fastest growing RIA platform on the market", based on Sun announcing that it had shipped its 100 millionth ...

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The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

As the above screen snapshots demonstrate, the JavaFX 2 JARs still need to be explicitly listed on the classpath because even with their installation as part of JDK 7 Update 2, they are installed in ...

Reports at Infoworld and CNet News that Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX at the Java One Conference in San Francisco today. The announcement follows the recent well received ...