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August 30, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Poll: JavaFX Script not exciting many

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If a recent poll on the java.net site for Java technology collaboration is any indication, Sun Microsystems has work to do to get developers interested in its new JavaFX Script technology.

Unveiled at the JavaOne conference in May, JavaFX Script is built as a scripting language for content creation on the JavaFX multimedia application development platform. JavaFX technologies are only available in pre-release forms at this point.

But a poll on java.net last week found that a majority of the 756 respondents were at best not very interested in learning JavaFX Script. Some 16.9 percent, or 128 voters, were very interested and 27.7 percent, or 210 voters, were somewhat interested. However, the remaining respondents, totaling 418 voters, were either not very interested (25.2 percent), not at all interested (19.1 percent) or checked off the "JavaFWhat?" option in the poll (10.8 percent made this their choice).

Comments posted on the poll were more positive, however. "I think java.net is the wrong place to ask this question. JavaFX should be a good tool for non-programmers," said one commenter.

"I'm more interested in groovy. On the other hand, JavaFX will be first choice on mobiles in the future," said another commenter.

Another said JavaFX looks interesting but that developers could build Adobe Flex applications today.

Posted by Paul Krill on August 30, 2007 01:44 PM

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