JavaFX 2.0.2 and successor SDKs let you deploy JavaFX applications in multiple environments including as a standalone app, via Java Web Start, or embedded in a web page.

Gluon founder Johan Vos recently appeared on the Airhacks.fm podcast, discussing the growing usage of JavaFX for cross-platform mobile apps in App Stored.

Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boost Java's waning relevance for client ...

Sun throws JavaFX hat into Web app ring Programmers now can start trying out JavaFX for writing rich Internet applications--and seeing if it's worth using over Adobe's Flash and other alternatives.

No date has been set for a general release. JavaFX differs from Sun’s Project Flair, which also proposes an alternative to AJAX, in that Flair is based on JavaScript but JavaFX is not.

Sun demos two new JavaFX-powered applications — Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud — at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president ...

Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice ...

But it faces quite a battle in the space against the established Adobe Flash and AJAX platforms and Microsoft's up-and-coming Silverlight.

Google’s HTML5 app store, launched in 2010, offers free and paid web apps for Chrome. Mozilla is reportedly testing its own HTML5 app store, and so has AT&T. JavaFX currently has no such app store.

The JavaFX Mobile runtime, expected in the spring of 2009, will enable app development for handheld devices and smartphones. Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz points to Java's open source ...