Combination of JavaFX and Portlet 2.0 technologies make it possible to develop portlets that can live outside of a portal page and outside of a browser and run as desktop applications. JavaFX can be used to develop very rich UI, thus can be used as client-side presentation technology. JavaFX also allows to add drag-n-drop feature to applets running inside a browser. Portlets on the other hand can execute the business logic and talk to the enterprise data services, behind the firewall, thus adding security. And most importantly, portlets allow the …

Nandini Ramani, Director of Engineering for the JavaFX Platform at Sun, gives us a quick overview of the JavaFX Preview SDK release and then we jump into a description of the common workflow for developing and deploying JavaFX widgets and applications.

JavaFXScript is the new language from Sun focused on assisting developers in building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In this “basic concepts” session we’ll look at the IDE support for JavaFX Script in NetBeans and Eclipse, sample some of the language constructs, then build a basic application that showcases some of the unique timer-based animations that are so easily accomplished using this new language. This demo application will then be extended to demonstrate JavaFX’s ability to talk to existing Java and Groovy code libraries. …

Engineering Director Nandini Ramani introduces JavaFX Preview SDK and shows how to use NetBeans IDE 6.1 With JavaFX to run samples and create an application.
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JavaFX makes working with graphics and animation super easy. And thanks to the new NetBeans plugin you can build rich graphics interactively. In this tutorial you will learn the very basics of creating shapes, binding to variables, and simple rollover animations in about 4 minutes.
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Sun Microsystems evangelist David Coldrick interviews Sun JavaFX developer Josh Marinacci during the Sun Tech Days in Sydney, Australia.
http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/Sun-Tech-Days%2C-Sydney—Epilogue-327/