SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Sun Microsystems, Inc. released the latest updates of the JavaFX platform and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE).
The JavaFX platform provides a unified development and deployment model for building expressive, rich Internet applications (RIAs) across browsers, desktops, mobile devices and TVs.
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JavaFX 1.2 delivers a new user interface library and performance enhancements to improve the user experience associated with JavaFX applications.
The JavaFX 1.2 platform release is complemented by the first public preview of JavaFX TV, which completes the vision of JavaFX applications running across browsers, desktops, mobile devices, and TVs. Sun also previewed the JavaFX Authoring Tool, which allows designers and Web developers to visually create JavaFX applications.
"The latest version of JavaFX, combined with updates to Java SE, delivers an enhanced user experience for JavaFX applications," said Jeet Kaul, senior vice president of Java technologies at Sun.
"JavaFX opens a vast global market for developers and content authors who want to deploy rich, expressive applications, services and experiences across all the screens of their customers' lives. We continue to strengthen the JavaFX ecosystem by helping to enable more people to create content across more device types and establishing a channel, the Java Store, for developers and ISVs to directly deploy JavaFX applications to hundreds of millions of worldwide Java technology users," added Kaul.
With more than 6.5 million software developers around the globe, Java is one of the world's most popular software platforms and is present on more than 800 million desktop computers and over seven billion Internet-connected devices, added the press release.
Worldwide industry studies show that Java technology is already on more than 90 percent of desktops and laptops, 85 percent of mobile devices and is a technology leader in next-generation televisions, Blu-ray disc players and TV set-top boxes.
JavaFX software extends the capabilities of the Java platform by delivering high-fidelity audio and video, rich text, vector graphics, animation and Web services via a simple but powerful scripting language.
