The javafx.application.Application class provides a framework for managing a JavaFX application. This application must include a class that extends Application, overriding various methods that the ...

Sun Microsystems has released its JavaFX rich Internet application platform that puts the company in competition with Adobe and Microsoft in the RIA space. Despite its come-from-behind status, Sun ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

Java pioneered rich web applications years ago, and this JavaFX announcement firmly reinvigorates Java as a platform of choice for RIA. He hits it on the head pretty well.

But it faces quite a battle in the space against the established Adobe Flash and AJAX platforms and Microsoft's up-and-coming Silverlight.

JavaFX’s decline started years ago: Oracle discontinued JavaFX Script, a scripting language associated with the platform, in 2010. “It is a technology with relatively narrow appeal.