Sun Microsystems has has announced a new cellphone technology dubbed JavaFX at today’s annual JavaOne Conferencee (sessions, activities, exhibitors, blogs and webcasts).
JavaFX joins Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight as a scripting environments for creating Web experiences across various devices. JavaFX is also said to eliminate some security and compatibility issues related to AJAX-based applications.
JavaFX features a new scripting variant of the Java, called JavaFX Script to enable rapid development of applications for desktops, mobile clients, and TVs.
The first product release is JavaFX Mobile, a software system for mobile devices. It’s designed to make Java applications more portable across mobile phones, explains C/Net.
Sun executives also plan to release the last portions of Java it said it would open-source and outline the governance model for open-source projects around Java.
With JavaFX Script, Sun is trying to revive the use of Java on small devices, like set-top boxes, and in PC Web browsers, which the language was originally designed to do in the 1990s. Sun is making the last of the Java source code, the Java Developers Kit (JDK), open source.
