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Getting a Jump Start in JavaFX
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
—Howard Thurman
At the annual JavaOne conference in May 2007, Sun Microsystems announced a new product family named JavaFX. Its stated purpose includes enabling the development and deployment of content-rich applications on consumer devices such as cell phones, televisions, in-dash car systems, and browsers. Josh Marinacci, a software engineer at Sun, made the following statement very appropriately in a recent Java Posse interview: “JavaFX is sort of a code word for reinventing client Java and fixing the sins of the past.” Josh was referring to the fact that ...
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