The browser-based applications that present the kinds of engrossing user interfaces (UIs) and content previously found only in desktop applications -- otherwise known as Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) -- are becoming increasingly popular with developers, writes Sun Developer Network staffer Ed Ort, in part because of the ubiquity of the Internet and also because of the improved uniformity in the way different browsers handle RIAs.
The Oracle-Sun downloads page offers the latest downloads along with a list of the top software visitors have downloaded. The page also offers its featured downloads, such as Java, NetBeans, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and more. This article lists the most recent and top downloads, and links to access them.
In this Oracle Technology Network's TechCast, Nandini Ramani, director of Java Development at Oracle, brings news about innovation, evangelism, and adoption in the JavaFX area. The video runs 25:40. Watch it now.
March 14 is the deadline for those wanting to submit papers for the JavaOne 2010 conference. This year's conference will be co-located with Oracle Develop during the week of Oracle OpenWorld. Set for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, JavaOne 2010 will be offering the following tracks, and proposals to speak are being accepted under them: Core Java Platform; Java SE and Desktop Java; Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications; JavaFX and Rich User Experience; Java ME and Mobile; Java for Devices, Card, and TV; and The Java Frontier.
"JavaFX 1.2 UI Control Components: Part 1, Layouts" by Robert Eckstein, java.sun.com senior staff writer, discusses the new user interface (UI) control components that are features of JavaFX SDK 1.2. He explains that these components replace those in earlier versions that were derived from Swing and that limited users to the desktop profile. The new control components, Eckstein writes, enable developers to create more compelling graphical capabilities with the JavaFX scene graph.
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