What do you want from your special FX?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Since Sun announced the JavaFX meta-project awhile back (2007?), there's been a lot of commentary, mostly negative, on the effort; but I think a great deal of this misses the point, which is that FX is not primarily aimed at the RIA market, but at the much larger market of ...

Why bother? Sun and Client Java

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I just saw this blog entry from Jan Erik Paulsen, the guy that runs Teppefall Labs. Question: why is Sun Microsystems bothering to invest in client (desktop) Java and RIA? Sun is in danger of losing what position they have in the desktop/client market already, vis-a-vis Swing. While Swing has, ...

Rich clients look like the future (to me)

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

I've been thinking about rich clients apps (RCA) versus HTML client apps (HCA), and why I tend to like rich clients better. The RC app that most impressed me in the last few years was iTunes; for an HCA, it would probably be this German website to look for rooms ...