Sun Microsystems has announced that their newest addition to the java family will go live on December 4th. This new addition is known as JavaFX. Being a java developer you would think I would be extremely excited about this release, however I honestly am not. Have you ever heard the phrase "too little too late"? Sun has been focusing so very hard on this new technology when in all honesty its been done and the winners are clearly already out there.
Flash seems to be taking over everywhere on the web. The most popular sites seem to be all using it to stream video to people all around the world. YouTube, Hulu and almost all network television stations use it to broadcast their content. Not to mention the addition to flash on mobile devices such as Nokia smartphones (S60, Maemo), Windows Mobile and several other PMP devices its clearly got the lead (Sorry iPhone your the sore loser).
Microsoft has released what they are calling Silverlight and it has a big following already. It is not as big as flash but it seems to be gaining ground. Some of the big names using Silverlight are Netflix which just adopted it to for their "watch instantly" feature. You can view other implementations by looking at their showcase.
Where does this leave JavaFX? I don't know about you but I haven't heard of any services planning to use JavaFX? Honestly I hope I'm wrong because I'm a big supporter of Sun and Java but this doesn't look like a smart business decision in my books. What are your thoughts? For me I'm sticking with my continued support for the jMaki project where they should have put their resources to begin with.
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