The screenshot above is from Anthony Rogers’ blog (UI designer for the tool), and the next one is from Chris Oliver’s blog, who successfully managed to hide away from most of the geek crowds at JavaOne.

The design of the tool is looking really nice and clean, the timeline reminds me a bit of the Adobe [...]

“The classpath is dead“ … that’s what Mark Reinhold (Principal Engineer @ Sun) said at a general session during JavaOne 2009. It’s the type of statement that should resonate with any of us who have been victims of classpath/jar hell. Mark announced this in the context of reviewing the new language features due to be [...]

During this morning’s JavaOne general session, the “James Gosling’s Toy Show”, Tor Norbye gave another preview of the “JavaFX Authoring Tool” (TODO: Needs a cool codename!!!).
In 2007 when I blogged about the original JavaFX announcement at that year’s JavaOne, one of my first questions was about the tooling. At first we basically just had JFXPad [...]

I’ve heard this question asked quite a few times around the hallways of the Moscone Center this week.
There are no guarantees or definite answers, even Ellison didn’t really provide many details when asked (he probably can’t) but I think the answer is a definite no.
It is well known that Java is a big part of [...]

Visiting the JavaOne pavillion yesterday at CommunityOne, one thing that stood out was the absence of Oracle. This year there is no Oracle booth, which is very unusual, and a lot of people are wondering what is going on with the Sun/Oracle merger which nobody from Sun is really talking about.
My guess is that due [...]

JavaOne officially starts tomorrow but today Sun has kicked off CommunityOne. Which is a more open source focused and free conference that precedes the bigger event.
The main theme this year is cloud computing. The presentation today has been about showing several vendor solutions in the areas of virtualization and large scale application deployment that is [...]

At one point it was Apple, then IBM was supposed to be it more than a couple of times, well the buyer of Sun ends up being Oracle and I think this is a good thing.
First of all (and related to that panel from Watchmen), I was getting a little anxious about all this merger [...]

I thought it was going to be a bit later, but JavaFX is ready for download. The site has also been redesigned, and to the relief of many (I’m sure) it actually uses the technology it’s advertising (at least for the video).
I’m downloading the Netbeans bundle as I write this, so we’ll see what this [...]

JavaFX 1.0 will be released tomorrow (Dec 4th). Chris Oliver invites us to judge for ourselves if this project delivers on the promise of an improved user experience for rich clients in the Java Platform.
I remember well when this technology was announced at last year’s JavaOne. Chris’ demos impressed the audience, and in his sessions [...]

Last December I did a presentation about JavaFX in Spanish for the Panama Java User’s Group (JUG). This event took place in the city of Chitre, and was a lot of fun to participate in, specially since it gave me a chance to visit my native country. The presentation aimed to serve as an introduction [...]