By being hell bent on "finishing" JavaFX instead of augmenting Swing Sun has more or less destroyed their credibility as a desktop platform company. The reality is that Swing plus a scene graph, accelerated layers and a new media framework is more valuable than the entire JavaFX ecosystem. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Opera, Mozilla and Google all believe that XML is the future of layout and yet Sun believes a non-standard syntax based on Lisp and JSON is the way to go. And the fact that C#, Actionscript, Dalvik and Javascript are all Java clones seems to indicate that Java is just fine as a user interface language. Adobe even exports twine animation code as XML and vectors as SVG. I sit here working in Adobe Creative Suite and wonder what Sun is thinking.

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Posted by JP at 10:54 PM | Permalink

You can now compare the Swing JMC system with the WPF and Qt equivalents. These Windows programs are beta quality and not feature complete. The big problem here is of course that the latest version of JmediaPane is not available to anyone outside the big castle surrounded by fire breathing dragons. And therefore bug reports and general feedback is just a colossal waste of time.

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Posted by JP at 09:22 AM | Permalink

1 - A JWebPane alpha must be released. Yes, now. Even if it is crap.
2 - The legal status of JMediaPane must be clearly defined. And sound support for Windows media would be nice.
3 - The scene graph should be released under a different license. Sun´s GPL licensing is based on wishful thinking and inflated egos. GNU is not Linux.
4 - Will we ever get video capture support (desktop/mobile) ? There is this thing called a camera phone. Maybe Sun developers have seen a picture of one ?
5 - javax.fx.FXPanel ! Or sun.fx.FXPanel ?

Maybe I am repeating myself here, but I feel like I am watching a train wreck in slow motion. Everyone who codes in JavaFX are beginners. Throw the people who know Swing in and out a freaking bone already. Otherwise we will just write crap on our blogs about how JavaFX ate our flapjacks without painting our outhouse.

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Warning for OS X users
This example might/will crash your browser. And it is entirely Apple's fault.

First run the media player component (Applet).
http://app.teppefall.com/installer

Then right click and choose "Open URL".
Enter http://app.teppefall.com/t.flv

You will only get audio because of a RuntimeException. This is a show-stopper issue that will affect anyone who does not sign their code. And this error message will give you one hit in Google. A single hit. One.

I just love writing 500 lines of Javascript and 5000 lines of Java for then to...............................

Posted by JP at 06:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Teppefall Media Player is now available as a beta for Windows and Mac OS X. Java 1.5 or higher required.

Try running four or more Flash videos at the same time and then compare with the other players. The Adobe Media Player and VLC seems to be less scalable.

Posted by JP at 08:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (0)

I know this comment is going to sound very infantile, but where did all the JavaFX people go ? Hello ! There is this gigantic financial meltdown all around us and JavaFX is going nowhere. There is no useful information anywhere. Maybe they're all on vacation ? Kicking back in Hawaii while the entire world is thinking something like this:

Hmm... Budget for 2009. AJAX and Web 2.0. Well, TechCrunch said that the Web 2.0 thing is over. No budget allocation. AIR and Flex. Well.. We already bought CS3, so what the hell. Cheap upgrade. The iPhone. Nobody here knows Objective C. What the heck, we let the dedicated nerd boy handle it.

JavaFX... What is JavaFX anyway ? I have no JavaFX installed. No budget allocation.

Teppefall Media Player going nowhere. I don't sell servers for a living and can't risk it. Sun is projecting extreme uncertainty in a rough market.

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The SDK is currently available for Windows and OS X/Intel. So my Powerbook is not supported and Safari applets are not happening until Apple developers get off their collective asses and enable Java 1.6 as the default Applet runtime on Safari. Sure, Java 1.5 might run JavaFX eventually, but it will be severely hindered by this limitation since the latest 1.6 release is a lot better than the older ones. There are also 32bit versus 64bit issues on OS X as well. Making this transition even harder.

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