JavaFX is ready for its closeup

A year after its auspicious announcement at last year's JavaOne, JavaFX was due for a major debut and update at this year's show, and it was a major focus of Tuesday's general session, playing a starring role in the "Java+You" theme of providing services to end users through RIAs.

That's what the world saw, now let's go behind the scenes.

For this year's JavaOne, we have a video blogger, Rachel Hill, and she's posting edited video presentations every day of the conference. In JavaOne 2008 General Session she covers snippets from t-shirt tossing to Blu-Ray to Neil Young. She also got a Sneak Preview with Joshua Marinacci, on the eve of his big keynote JavaFX presentation.

Josh has his own story of his keynote presentations in My keynote demo:

Well, the initial showing didn't go so well. The main parts worked but it crashed twice on stage when my boss demoed it. When we showed it again this afternoon and added Jabber support live, everything worked beautifully. I guess the demo gods were happy the second time around.

In another blog Josh also notes that "we launched JavaFX.com today. I'm very excited about this site since I was personally involved in putting it together."

On a personal and less pleasant note, java.net Community Manager Marla Parker's laptop, a 15" Mac G4 PowerBook, went missing from the hang space at the java.net Community Corner during last night's mini-talks, sometime between 7 and 7:30. If you picked up her laptop by mistake, or saw someone take it, please contact Moscone Center security.

On the java.net front page today:

• Cay Horstmann: Java One Day 1
• Joshua Marinacci: JavaFX.com
• Rachel Hill: JavaOne 2008 General Session
• j1-2k8-mtT17: Greenfoot
• Computerworld: Sun unveils RIA tool set, project to help developers monetize apps
• Christian Frei: RIA, RIA, RIA...
• Daniel H. Steinberg: The Lightweight U I Toolkit
• Arun Gupta: Take 6 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008
• John Ferguson Smart: JavaOne 2008 - Subversion 1.5 is coming!
• Michael Nascimento Santos: Special limited offer: extra seats for Date & Time session repeat
• Binod: SailFin at JavaOne
• Joshua Marinacci: My keynote demo
• Kohsuke Kawaguchi: Hudson won a Duke's Choice Award
• Ron Hitchens: You Are Correct, Sir
• John Ferguson Smart: CommunityOne 2008 - Slides avaliable for "Open Source Tools for Optimizing Your Development Process"
• Qusay H. Mahmoud: Hybrid Apps with JavaFX
• Robert Cooper: JavaOne Day -1
• Marina Sum: Learning About OpenDS at CommunityOne
• Rachel Hill: JavaOne Sneak Preview