JavaFX

[Ian Darwin]

Wallace Jackson wrote:
> ...  Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's
> JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the
> presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that
> JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application?

No. Sun were nice enough to credit OpenMoko for making a superior Linux 
phone (see their blogs from June 2007). But the JavaFX package is a 
complete linux distro with JavaFX installed, based on work at a smaller 
JavaME licensee (Savaje) that Sun acquired. My guess is that this will 
be released next week or the week after, whenever Sun's Mobile & 
Embedded workshop is. Heck, I don't even know if it uses X (like 
OpenMoko) or direct FB (like QTopia). But it will probably NOT be easily 
miscible with the OpenMoko software. It's a complete phone stack, like 
OpenMoko, like Android, like QTopia.

Now if you want Java for the OpenMoko stack, that does exist, as Jalimo 
(among others). See http://www.jalimo.org. You can run command line 
(ssh'd into the phone), AWT, Swing (a bit slow), or GTK-In-Java.

See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Java for an overview of Java projects.