Felix Bembrick wrote: >it makes them no money >In my opinion, JavaFX should be jettisoned from the JDK
Like AWT or Swing, it plays in favor of Java adoption by people looking for a portable way of doing something as simple as lighting up a pixel - which are still, after all these years, quite scarce - without having to resort to scripts like Tcl/Tk, or web's ever-changing mixture of dubious technologies (I say dubious to stay polite, else I would use a more Zed Shaw-esque vocabulary). That said (here comes my hobbyhorse), if Java also provided stable lower level UI primitives, on which other UI frameworks could be built, maybe UI frameworks would flourish in it as much as messaging frameworks do (as if we still had to invent the "sockets" of UI...), improving diversity, satisfaction and resilience within the Java ecosystem (and Oracle would have less need to grow a single monolithic framework attempting to fit every possible usage). -Jeff
