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-side ...

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Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) today (May 8) unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing ...

Oh, hey, I haven’t mentioned it but JavaFX 1.1, which includes the much anticipated mobile functionality, has arrived. Sun’s Java ME director Eran Davidov gave an interesting interview to the Artima ...

A long time ago, in an ancient world when the Internet was young, the Java language was so hot that Fortune put Scott McNealy on the cover with a superhero costume and the name “Java Man.” The ...

In most competitions cheating would be frowned upon, but among software developers, hacking the game is often a badge of honor. That’s one of the reasons Johan Vos is happy that the game he and his ...