The JavaFX authoring tool is very cool

[Moandji Ezana]

Last night, at the Brussels JUG's JavaFX session, we got a little demo of the JavaFX authoring tool (I hope I'm getting the name right, it might have been JavaFX Composer? I mean the one that's standalone, not the one that's part of NetBeans). It was an alpha preview build that was several months old, but it looked *awesome*.

It is itself an extremely pretty JavaFX application that makes Google's App Inventor and the Android Eclipse plugin's visual layout tool look like a joke, in terms of functionality. It had drag and drop layouting, lots of pre-built event handlers and a timeline to manage keyframes, transitions, etc. Apparently, it's a lot like Matisse (which I've never used).

It just made a lot of sense to me to put together most of the UI in a visual tool, then modify the generated code only for the particularly tricky/custom bits. And if it's possible to write your own plugins or event handlers, even that might not be too necessary.

While JavaFXScript is a very nice language, I haven't really been interested in JavaFX as a whole. If the authoring tool lives up to its promise, that might change a bit.

Moandji

[kilkenny]

Hi Moandji

Do you have a link to more information screenshots or something the
like..?

Regards, Adrian

[Moandji Ezana]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, kilkenny <a.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have a link to more information screenshots or something the like..?

No, but there should be something (a beta release?) at JavaOne.

Moandji 

[Jan Goyvaerts]

ahhhh... is that the cloud/web/not-local authoring tool they were talking about in the posse some time ago ?

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[Moandji Ezana]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Jan Goyvaerts <java.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

ahhhh... is that the cloud/web/not-local authoring tool they were talking about in the posse some time ago ?

This didn't seem cloud-based. Since it's a JavaFX app, I guess it could be delivered via WebStart, but that's about it.

Moandji

[Jan Goyvaerts]

A JavaFX application ? In this morose Java-climate... Did they mention a release date or commitment of some kind for the future ?

Moandji

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[Moandji Ezana]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jan Goyvaerts <java.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

A JavaFX application ? In this morose Java-climate... Did they mention a release date or commitment of some kind for the future ?

The fact that it was in JavaFX makes sense: it's like Eclipse being built on the Eclipse RCP.

As for the future, the presenter (an ex-Sun/Oracle employee) either knew as little as we did, or was a very good actor. I really do hope this tool survives, though.

Moandji

[Jan Goyvaerts]

So do I - because for me the JavaFX language features alone is the next-generation Java. Personal opinion of course.

I guess everything will be revealed on D-day : JavaOne's keynote by the big boss himself. :-)

Moandji

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[sebsto]

Hello Guys,

I did the speech @ BruJUG yesterday night.
Here is the official party line, it is *really* all what I know.
(Oracle Product Management is not very keen at sharing roadmap, even
with its employees)

Java FX Authoring Tool has been announced and demoed at JavaONE 2009
during the keynote.
The pre-acquisition planning as published on an internal (Sun) web
site was : beta for JavaONE 2010 and GA for end of CY 2010

I contacted one of the main developer and the marketing team before
doing yesterday's talk. Answer was basically :
"Oracle did not kill JavaFX Authoring Tool but some things will change
around JavaFX and related tooling.
It will be announced during JavaONE. You can deliver the "old" speech
you
usually deliver"

Here you are - you know as much as I do. I think it is not worth
speculating, just wait for another 10 days ;-)

BTW, thanks Moandji for the great feedback

Seb

On Sep 10, 11:05 am, Moandji Ezana <mwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jan Goyvaerts]

As long as they announce to maintain JavaFX. :-)

Thanks !