Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boost Java's waning relevance for client-side ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process): ...

Oracle’s rich media web technology will be broken out of standard Java as of JDK 11, and will proceed at its own pace JavaFX, Oracle’s 10-year-old rich client development technology for Java, will be ...

Programmers now can start trying out JavaFX for writing rich Internet applications--and seeing if it's worth using over Adobe's Flash and other alternatives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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