No JavaFX for iOS, Android or WP (original) (raw)

Mario Torre neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 05:00:18 PDT 2012

2012/10/15 Claus Luethje <Claus.Luethje at osys.ch>:

I want to be working on mobile app based on JavaFX with my team. We have built skills (and still are) and interest, but how can we convince customers to invest in JavaFX? I see JavaFX as a very efficient way to build GUIs; it's fast, versatile and fun. It could be a perfect match for RIA, but time-to-market is important and JavaFX isn't there yet. Regards Claus

Hi Claus,

I can share with you you my own experience on this.

In the past, I've been part of a team who was delivering a stripped down j2se solution for the automotive market. It was a solution mostly targeting JavaTV/Xlet environments, the kind of things you find in high class cars today (with DVD readers and all the funny gadgets that I will never understand how people can ever use while driving :).

Now, there are a number of good APIs that are part of this environment, most of the functionality of the most famous JSRs even found a way in some form into nowadays popular mobile platforms like Android and iOS (location services, OpenGL for mobile devices, camera services, etc...).

This, however, wasn't enough. We then decided to port LWUIT to offer this framework as a base for the mobile UI work, since at the time LWUIT was only working on J2ME we wrote our own layer over the stripped down J2SE.

The solution we were providing was not just about adding those tools and that's it, we were offering also all kind of frameworks to help integrate those things in a secure way (service on demand, class isolation, etc...)

It was a good product in the end, because of this high level of integration, it offered a very good value added.

Android and iOS are good choices because they offer this value added too, they have tools, good support and documentation, and lots of interesting APIs, and everything is well consolidated in a coherent environment.

So the question you're asking "how can we convince customers to invest in JavaFX" is very simple to answer: help build this ecosystem around it and consolidate.

The JavaFX community will take care of enabling this ecosystem, depending on the specific needs of the individuals, over multiple choices of platforms and operating systems, as soon as the whole thing goes Open Source, I'm very confident on this.

Ultimately, the choice is yours, and it's most probably driven by current customers need, but in my opinion it's worth to build extra skills and code over this platform. [1]

Cheers, Mario

[1] Standard disclaimer apply: This is a personal opinion only, use at your own risk! I'm not affiliated in any way with Oracle, nor this opinion is necessarily shared by my employer or Oracle or anybody else, etc...

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