Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 02/18/2011 12:01 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it mailto:fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: 3. Given that JavaFX has not to beat Flash and Silverlight, but to complement Swing, in a way it will find its

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Ricky Clarkson
My prediction, as expressed previously in another thread, is that desktop apps are not dying, but instead they'll gain sandboxing so that users don't have to trust them, like they don't have to trust web apps today. And then the line between desktop and web app will be blurred. On Fri, Feb 18,

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Casper Bang
And the runtime underneath responsible for the sand-boxing? We sort of lack a unified, standardized, cross-platform application container. On Feb 18, 11:49 am, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: My prediction, as expressed previously in another thread, is that desktop apps are not

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Ricky Clarkson
I like to call it the operating system. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: And the runtime underneath responsible for the sand-boxing? We sort of lack a unified, standardized, cross-platform application container. On Feb 18, 11:49 am, Ricky Clarkson

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Casper Bang
Ehh sure, because operating systems all agree on types, overflow semantic, memory model, scheduling, sand-boxing etc. etc. On Feb 18, 11:58 am, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: I like to call it the operating system. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Casper Bang

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 02/18/2011 11:36 AM, Casper Bang wrote: On Feb 17, 10:31 pm, Ricky Clarksonricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: There is a problem; PropertyChangeListeners and the like easily lead to sprawling, unmaintainable code. JavaFX's binding model supposedly tackles this. Yes, the library approach

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 02/18/2011 12:12 PM, Ricky Clarkson wrote: Operating systems already all sandbox users from each other, unless you count embedded OSs and Windows 98. It would just be another such level. Which could be virtualization too, IMHO. We can now virtualize even Android... -- Fabrizio Giudici -

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Casper Bang
Which could be virtualization too, IMHO. We can now virtualize even Android... That sounds a bit more concrete, but the problem remains however: How to get each and everyone to agree on a virtualization/hypervisor interface, while remaining impartial about it. Google's Native Client as

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Moandji Ezana
The truth is that JavaFX is a huge failure. I was amused by this tweet by @javafx4you: interest in #JavaFX is higher than never :D RT @AdamBien: JavaFX 2 or 43 comments in 24h: http://bit.ly/fivKR6; --http://twitter.com/javafx4you/status/38485932638208000 I don't know if never is a typo or

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 18, 11:54 am, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: And the runtime underneath responsible for the sand-boxing? We sort of lack a unified, standardized, cross-platform application container. My bet is the world will unify on x-to-Javascript compilers in HTML 5 in the browser.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Wright
Given the first line of the article reads In contrary to JavaFX..., I suspect this one is a typo. It also depressingly reinforces my suspicion that the API's answer to immutability will be Eh? What's that then, speak up lad! On 18 February 2011 08:48, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Moandji Ezana
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Augusto Sellhorn augusto.sellh...@gmail.com wrote: How do you sign up for EA or beta? Be nice to play around with it a bit ... You have to be a partner. The different kinds of partnerships are described here: http://javafx.com/partners/learn.jsp Moandji --

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Giles
Alternatively, fill in the following form and wait until beta time (which is a free for all), or contact the JavaFX Partner Program team to ask to join the EA project. http://www.oracle.com/dm/11q1field/javafx_beta_en.html -- Jonathan On Feb 17, 4:54 pm, Augusto Sellhorn

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Carl Jokl
I quite like the JavaFX technology however I am skeptical whether it is going to be really popular outside the communities who use SWING. I wanted it to take off but so far things seem to have fallen short of the hype at the launch of JavaFX 1.0. I wonder if it is coming too late for mass

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 02/17/2011 12:36 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: I quite like the JavaFX technology however I am skeptical whether it is going to be really popular outside the communities who use SWING. I think it's reasonable that the old idea of JavaFX to compete with Flash and Silverlight has gone and we're

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Wright
On 17 Feb 2011 12:57, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:36 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: I quite like the JavaFX technology however I am skeptical whether it is going to be really popular outside the communities who use SWING. I think it's reasonable that the

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Wright
On 17 Feb 2011 13:49, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: My main concern here is that the early access will keep it out the hands of other JVM languages, especially those under open source where the likelihood of

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Wright
On 17 Feb 2011 14:04, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 Feb 2011 13:49, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: My main concern here is that the early access will keep it out the hands of other

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Serge Boulay
it would be nice to see some sort of external layout similar to Flex's mxml. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan Giles jonat...@jonathangiles.netwrote: I'm also happy to chime in here if anyone has questions or comments. -- Jonathan On Feb 17, 8:26 am, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Wright
It would be nice to see some sort of sane DSL similar to the kind of thing our existing IDEs are already very good at validating and refactoring! On 17 February 2011 14:45, Serge Boulay serge.bou...@gmail.com wrote: it would be nice to see some sort of external layout similar to Flex's mxml.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Moandji Ezana
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: It would be nice to see some sort of sane DSL similar to the kind of thing our existing IDEs are already very good at validating and refactoring! I'm guessing Groovy or Scala are going to provide that fairly quickly.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Wright
On 17 February 2011 15:06, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: It would be nice to see some sort of sane DSL similar to the kind of thing our existing IDEs are already very good at validating and refactoring!

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Serge Boulay
that would be xml then. This would be no different than the approach that Silverlight and Flex take. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: It would be nice to see some sort of sane DSL similar to the kind of thing our existing IDEs are already very good

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Serge Boulay
the problem with the DSL approach is that you have to use an alternate JVM language .. .there goes the Back to Java and You don't have to learn another language marketing for JavaFx 2.0. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
What is really baffling to me about this JavaFX Early Access debacle is that Oracle is treating JavaFX as if it was a huge success that now needs to be carefully protected, designed in secret and kept away from developers while the tough decisions are being made. The truth is that JavaFX is a

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Moandji Ezana
2011/2/17 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com JavaFX is probably beyond any salvation at this point, but if there is one thing that might, possibly have a slimmer of a chance to work, it would be to open it up completely. Open the mailing-list and the design discussions, have the core developers

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/17 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com JavaFX is probably beyond any salvation at this point, but if there is one thing that might, possibly have a slimmer of a chance to work, it would be to open it up completely.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Ricky Clarkson
There is a problem; PropertyChangeListeners and the like easily lead to sprawling, unmaintainable code. JavaFX's binding model supposedly tackles this. 2011/2/17 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/17 Cédric Beust ♔

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.comwrote: There is a problem; PropertyChangeListeners and the like easily lead to sprawling, unmaintainable code. JavaFX's binding model supposedly tackles this. As do local message

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 02/17/2011 10:35 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.com mailto:ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: There is a problem; PropertyChangeListeners and the like easily lead to sprawling, unmaintainable code. JavaFX's binding

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-17 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: 3. Given that JavaFX has not to beat Flash and Silverlight, but to complement Swing, in a way it will find its way in industrial applications relatively easy (it will be a lot easier if it will be easy to

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-16 Thread Moandji Ezana
Adam Bien has posted a hello world example: http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/hello_javafx_2_back_to The comments are worth reading, as Java FX team members chime in. Moandji -- www.moandjiezana.com Sent from my phone On 11 Feb 2011 20:39, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: --

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Giles
I'm also happy to chime in here if anyone has questions or comments. -- Jonathan On Feb 17, 8:26 am, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: Adam Bien has posted a hello world example:http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/hello_javafx_2_back_to The comments are worth reading, as Java FX

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX 2.0 Early Access - anyone in?

2011-02-16 Thread Augusto Sellhorn
How do you sign up for EA or beta? Be nice to play around with it a bit ... On Feb 11, 6:18 pm, Mark Derricutt m...@talios.com wrote: Well I've signed up for the Early Access / Beta - will see if I get in or not :) -- Great artists are extremely selfish and arrogant things — Steven Wilson,