Sometimes ago I discussed with a colleague of mine on how this browser incompatibility issue is affecting one of the world's most popular language : Javascript....The conclusion of our discussion is that Flash/Flex will replace Javascript at least for now......I argued however that Flash/Flex can never be ubiquitous. Though some technologies that promises to compete with Flash/Flex are still young and probably immature.....they definitely will be able to catch up with flash/flex considering the big-wigs behind them....The first of these technologies is Silverlight from Microsoft and the Other is JavaFX from Sun Microsystems. The reason for this I reasoned is because the M$ guys will like to go with Silverlight and the Java guys will love to go with JavaFX.....this however I did not see happening anytime soon....as I wrote in http://trinisoftinc.blogspot.com/2008/04/web-30-and-javafx.html talking about web and JavaFX....I mentioned lately in that blog about applets and then I didnot know what was going to hit me at the Sun JavaOne conference......
After the session at the Sun JavaOne conference...and the demos we saw about JavaaFX and Applets...i betcha if flash wants to stay on-top it gat to do something dramatic.....with the new consumer JRE Java 6 update 10....the disparity between desktop and web have been reduced to zero.....you can simply drag and applet to your desktop and blam it becomes an application.....that is the coolest of them all.....i bet I have not seen anything like that(pardon me if it already exists).......The multimedia is awe inspiring....the connectivity is outa this world....the language is mature and superb.
For me I will go with Java or .NET and I will prefer any one of them to Flex....these languages have a super backing...the are matured and they are tested and trusted....flex is still a new language that is bound to go tru so many transistions.....I don't think that kind of language is suitable for the kind of apps I build.
Besides.....No matter how well flash is tinckered with....I still prefer(and I know anybody should) the graphics presentation and multimedia video and audio quality available in Applets + the MPees over flash....JavaFX crowns it all. With the JavaFX backend availability for applets....its best described as Applets on Steroids.....
You can check out the new cool features of JavaFX on www.javafx.com
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