Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language(for Swing Programmers)

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Below is a summary of the JavaFX Border classes and the Swing borders to which they correspond:

Oh dear God in Heaven. Now, when someone pointed out this new language from the Java team, I thought, “Oh man. Rich content market. Taking on AJAX, Flash, and Silverlight. Yay.”

Being the curious sort, and since this is usually my job, to check out the latest and greatest (well, okay, maybe not in the job specs, but it’s something I do for my job, anyway), I downloaded it. Figured I’d skim the tutorial. I glanced through the installation article with NetBeans, and clicked on the tutorial link at the bottom, which led me to the article above.

Holy Pete and all the Angels on High… what are they thinking? A rich media framework/language built on SWING? Argh.

Oh wow. And it gets better. I just downloaded the demos, without thinking (it must have been the shock of an “easy-to-use rich media environment” using Swing as it’s primary interface programming mechanism). After a couple minutes downloading over a pretty reasonable connection we have…:

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