Java FX, any news?

[Kostis Anagnostopoulos]

On Tue 16 Sep 2008 10:45:58 Philipp Aeberli wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was going through some of my bookmarks and stumbled over the Java FX
> announcement in May this year:
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310
>
> There is even a Java FX Mobile dedicated to mobile devices:
> http://java.sun.com/javafx/mobile/
>
> Does anyone now if somebody is pursuing this ????

Hi Philipp, 

I have attempted some experiments with JavaFX.

I'm using Debian with CacaoVM implementing JSE 1.5, 
and i tried the SDK preview samples "Stopwatch", "ImageRollover"  
and "Madness".
Here are the results so far:

* "Stopwatch" run but was deadly slow!
It may be that it requires floating-point maths for the clock-pointers.

* "ImageRollover" (just a close-button) starts slow but is perfectly 
responsive!

* "Madness" segfaulted CacaoVM with a "unable to find a Java method" message.
Attempts with others progs have also end-up with CacaoVM segfaults.


Tried also JamVM but classpath-classes didn't implement 
Window.isLocationByPlatform() method so JavaFX aborts.

Hope the above info helps.


Regards,
  Kostis

PS: These attempts are the precursory steps of evaluating the possibility of 
an ala "Tichy" FSO-based JavaFX+OSGi software for OpenMoko devices.
Any feedback appreciated.