On the Java Spotlight Podcast #32<http://blogs.oracle.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_32_nandini> , Nandini Ramani, the "Vice President of Development at Oracle in the Fusion Middleware Group" in charge of Java FX has a slightly different take.
She says (around 16:30) that coming out on Windows first was a "very concious decision because time to market was so critical for us and testing on all different platforms takes a lot of effort... It will be followed by a Mac OS port". I found the time to market aspect amusing for a 3 or 4 year old product that has never really gone anywhere. Moandji -- www.moandjiezana.com Sent from my phone On 31 May 2011 06:39, "Jonathan Giles" <jonat...@jonathangiles.net> wrote: > As Steven Herod linked to, here's Richard Bairs (Java Client > Architect) response (see the last comment): > > Cay, I have to agree! Which is why we have not developed a windows > version in isolation of everything else — or even first!. I develop > only on a Mac, and have done so for the past 3 years. As many > developers here work on Mac as work on Windows, and a number are on > Linux. Gerard Ziemski, who designed the initial version of Glass (our > windowing layer replacing AWT) works only on a Mac and writes and > maintains the Cocoa code. The first platform Glass came up on was a > Mac, and was subsequently ported on Windows (and differences between > Mac and Windows were at that time worked through). The guys working on > the windows version are also the AWT maintainers who for years have > wanted another go at it to fix the problems of AWT. We’re really very > well versed in these problems :-) . > > As for media, it sounds like there is some documentation which needs > addressing. We are using gstreamer for the media framework, which as > I’m sure you are aware is really quite widely adopted and works well > on multiple platforms. > > Now, I’m not prepared to make a statement on timetables or on why the > windows 32-bit is the only one released at this first beta. But do > bear in mind, we’re releasing a new beta build every 2 weeks. This > isn’t a release candidate! It is a snapshot in time which represents a > certain level of development and a certain level of testing. > > -- Jonathan > > On May 31, 1:36 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com >wrote: >> >> > This may also help out on the cross platform question: >> >http://fxexperience.com/2011/05/is-javafx-2-0-cross-platform/ >> >> Yes, in the sense that the answer is "Not at the moment and we can't tell >> you when". >> >> Obviously, we can't know if Oracle is being truthful when they say that >> JavaFX will be cross platform at some undetermined time in the future, but >> we can definitely draw some conclusions from the fact that they chose to >> release a Windows-only version first: this is the clear sign that the >> development process of JavaFX is not multi platform. >> >> Which should be a concern to everyone with an interest in that field and >> quite reminiscent of the disaster that happened with AWT fifteen years ago. >> >> Myself, I just can't understand why there's still even a tiny amount of >> people who are interested in JavaFX after Sun proved for fifteen years that >> they just weren't very good at this UI framework stuff. >> >> -- >> Cédric > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
