JFOKUS CONFERENCE -- Today at Sweden's largest developer conference, JFokus, Trillian Mobile and LodgON announced its partnership to make it easier for the more than 10 million Java developers ...

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.

The Ensemble application is by far the largest of the sample applications that are included in the JavaFX 2 samples ZIP file and is the “flagship” sample application. Brick Breaker is ...