Ok so i rarely ever start a topic; however i thought a shout out to my friends in the world of Java was warranted and thus i hope to see if anyone uses JavaFX and perhaps could enlighten me with their experiences with this technology. So do you, have you, would you, why not or why never?
The reason i ask is because i was toying around working on an application to display some dashboard style information on some media TV's at work and wanted a nice easy to use graphics system to display some data. After a bit of dabbling around with applets i became frustrated by it; they just always turn out crap and tacky, so 1990's. I then took some of the back end code and mixed it with a squirt of JavaFX and in half an hour had a polished and elegant looking interface that i must remark made my smile, it really was good and suited my needs perfectly, especially in a prototyping situation, the finish was production like (with exception to the missing functionality).
When this JavaFX caper came out, i can recall very little talk or discussion here at DreamInCode. Few questions seemed to present themselves and i figured it was a miss from Oracle and undertook no further investigation. The thing is, i can't fully understand why this dismal failure in uptake is so? I did some good old Googling to find real world examples of enterprise applications or at least significant applications utilising this technology and found that they are few and far between. There is a large amount of brow beating and some of it is justifiably so floating around. The main beatings center around the deployment failures and make reflections back to the failure of Java applets, which in my opinion are wretched and hideous things not worth the wear and tear on my keyboard. I digress.
So before i waffle on for days and do my brain dump here, may i ask your opinion and perspective? I know i am well behind the take up point, however i kinda liked working with JavaFX, it was a pinch of salt to learn and i reckon after a week of development i could blow my bosses away with a very professional application built upon this undiscovered new found wonder of my life. Of course should you have a differing view or wish to avert my attention elsewhere for a demonstrated reason, well i am all ears!
The reason i ask is because i was toying around working on an application to display some dashboard style information on some media TV's at work and wanted a nice easy to use graphics system to display some data. After a bit of dabbling around with applets i became frustrated by it; they just always turn out crap and tacky, so 1990's. I then took some of the back end code and mixed it with a squirt of JavaFX and in half an hour had a polished and elegant looking interface that i must remark made my smile, it really was good and suited my needs perfectly, especially in a prototyping situation, the finish was production like (with exception to the missing functionality).
When this JavaFX caper came out, i can recall very little talk or discussion here at DreamInCode. Few questions seemed to present themselves and i figured it was a miss from Oracle and undertook no further investigation. The thing is, i can't fully understand why this dismal failure in uptake is so? I did some good old Googling to find real world examples of enterprise applications or at least significant applications utilising this technology and found that they are few and far between. There is a large amount of brow beating and some of it is justifiably so floating around. The main beatings center around the deployment failures and make reflections back to the failure of Java applets, which in my opinion are wretched and hideous things not worth the wear and tear on my keyboard. I digress.
So before i waffle on for days and do my brain dump here, may i ask your opinion and perspective? I know i am well behind the take up point, however i kinda liked working with JavaFX, it was a pinch of salt to learn and i reckon after a week of development i could blow my bosses away with a very professional application built upon this undiscovered new found wonder of my life. Of course should you have a differing view or wish to avert my attention elsewhere for a demonstrated reason, well i am all ears!