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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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