After beating its chest regarding the arrival of the OpenSolaris operating system, renowned computer company -- and major open-source proponent -- Sun Microsystems is now keen to shine a light on the Rich Internet Applications value of its JavaFX product family.
Sun Microsystems focuses on JavaFX at JavaOne conference. Image: Sun.
Specifically, Sun is showcasing its JavaFX platform at this week’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, providing a first look at creations powered by the company’s JavaFX Rich Client Technology.
That first look will include providing a design and development vision through tech demos including the likes of Movie Cloud, Photo Flocker and Connected Life.
Individually: Movie Cloud delivers style and sophistication to movie collections by showing a 3D sphere simultaneously rendering dozens of high definition videos; Photo Flocker shows “the future of rendering photos” along with the addition of “elegant” photo tagging and a cascading search display; and Connected Life offers how it easy to craft RIAs across multiple “screens of your life” by offering up an app on a Web browser, social network, desktop operating system, and a mobile phone handset.
Sun is also looking to focus developer attention on the future of JavaFX, which will empower creators with the ability to garner advertising revenue via mobile applications. That focus also includes the high performance declarative scripting language JavaFX Script, which has been created specifically for Web scripters, designers and developers in order to aid them in the quick delivery of next-gen RIAs for desktop, mobile, TV and other consumer devices.
“Consumer demand is where the action is and with 2.2 billion mobile devices and 91 percent of all desktops, Java technology has become a constant digital companion, playing an essential role in everyday life,” said Rich Green, executive VP of software at Sun Microsystems. “Java technology is now ready for the new creative audiences that have emerged in response to consumer demand for rich content -- scripters, social application creators, designers, content authors and consumers who will join the Java ecosystem of more than six million developers to take Java technology in exciting new directions.”
California-based Sun Microsystems will also roll out its first JavaFX Desktop this coming fall and is also in the process of working alongside many of the world’s foremost handset manufacturers and carriers to similarly launch JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX TV versions by the second quarter of 2009.
Browser and desktop-based developers positively itching for the opportunity to get to grips with JavaFX can take advantage of a pre-release version by joining the JavaFX preview program, which is due to launch this summer.
According to Sun, its Java runtime environment is used to power “billions of devices” from browsers and computers through to mobile phones, Blu-ray HD players, television sets, and a host of other connected consumer products.
The Java platform is the global standard that powers billions of devices - from desktop browsers and computers (800,000) to mobile phones (more than two billion) and Blu-ray Disc players (13 million), TVs (nine million) and other connected consumer products. Green will provide attendees with a look into the future with the latest in Java technology design and development, as well as unveil a roadmap of enhancements to Java, the most widely adopted runtime in the world.
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