JavaFX™ Special Effects: Taking Java™ RIA to the Extreme with Animation, Multimedia, and Game Elements
by Lucas L. Jordan
Foreword
JavaFX. Oh boy, another new technology purporting to be the long-lost missing link between your math-fueled, unshaven, back-end developers, and latte-sipping, Mac-using, front-end designers.
We've heard all this before: Flash, Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, and heck, even GWT have all surfaced in the past few years-all attempting to solve the problems of delivering rich interfaces across devices as diverse as television set-top boxes and mobile phones. But none of these has captured the broad audience that Java serves. Much as Java functioned as the stepping-stone toward computer operating system agnosticism, JavaFX may well be the springboard for device agnosticism. The idea that applications no longer must be coupled to a particular device ...
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