No JavaFX for iOS, Android or WP (original) (raw)
Mark Fortner phidias51 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 12:04:35 PDT 2012
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My preference would be to get the following tasks taken care of before Oracle starts throwing resources at supporting tablets, mobile and JavaFX 3D:
- Deployment using Maven. Although you can build with Maven, there are a lot of hoops that you still have to jump through, and we still don't have the artifacts in an accessible repo. I think Zonski, and others have blogged about this, and kvetched on mailing lists so I won't repeat their comments here.
- *Webstart deployment *- this is still problematic. Currently when you push new artifacts to your web server, it's not replacing the existing JARs in the user's cache -- despite what the documentation says. The "special" javafx tags aren't documented well enough and presume that you're using the Ant tools to generate the JNLP. And getting shaded jars is next to impossible.
- Charts - support for zooming and panning within the charts. Support for drawing on top of charts.
- *Support for Swing components within JavaFX. * If the goal is to replace Swing, then this is one of those essential capabilities that needs to be in place. The current examples only demonstrate how to put JavaFX components within Swing applications. Unfortunately, if you want to reuse any existing components (like JFreeCharts for example) within your project, you're SOL at the moment.
- Support for an EventBus. Currently, there's a lot of point2point event code that you have to write to fire and listen to events. It would make for a much more useable codebase if you could simply publish and subscribe to events at the application level.
- Release the source. It's a royal pain to have to download the source through mercurial rather than simply read it as you do with the Swing code or download it as you do with any Maven package.
There's also some work that needs to be done to make it easier for people to participate. I have 3 accounts at the moment: one for this mailing list, one for the forums, and one for JIRA. Can we just boil that down to one, and let me login with Facebook or Google credentials?
Cheers,
Mark
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Filipe Portes <omeuefilipe at gmail.com>wrote:
well,
what I really will like to see, more than JavaFx running over mobile plataforms, Is java embedded and JavaFX becoming themselves a pure Java mobile plataform. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM, <goddard at seznam.cz> wrote: > Thanks for stepping in Richard. > > Jiri > > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: Werner Lehmann <lehmann at media-interactive.de> > Předmět: Re: No JavaFX for iOS, Android or WP - why not? > Datum: 09.10.2012 19:36:15 > ------------------------------**---------- > > FWIW, the community support on this mailing list is outstanding in my > opinion. Usually it does not take more than a day to even get replies > directly from Oracle staff. And suggestions are discussed with an open > mind. Compare that to the cost and response time of a support contract. > > Rgds > Werner > > On 09.10.2012 19:20, Richard Bair wrote: > >> In the Java group, we are very concerned about community involvement. >> > > >
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