First order of business for Sun marketing is never pay any mind or give any notice of the second string competition of the likes of Silverlight. Concentrate on the #1 player - Adobe Flex/AIR.
Second item - go after Adobe AIR. This is the place where JavaFX (founded on a Java SE runtime) can definitely be the most competitive. And especially target corporate IT development more so than consumer web. JavaFX has a hard sell for the consumer web crowd - the corporate IT space much more approachable. (Remember, there was already a significant presence of Swing in this space.) The mere existence of bridge solutions, such as Merapi, indicate that AIR is not nearly powerful enough in its current incarnation. It is extremely difficult to do serious, production quality software systems for the corporate IT space in AIR all by itself. It has numerous deficiencies that one resorts to Merapi/Java to solve. I stick with AIR because the bulk of our application is a Flex web app that is being remotely loaded from the web server (we're building hybrid RIA applications). AIR (and by extension Merapi/Java) do some additional crucial functionality that is only possible for desktop software. I also stick with Flex in general because it's an excellent GUI toolkit. But AIR is not Java SE. AIR has some completely maddening shortcomings relative to Java SE. I hope Adobe will shore up AIR because there's no extensibility ala something like JNI. I really don't relish a long term approach of AIR/Merapi/Java. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
