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JavaFX Preview SDK released

I'm happy to announce that we have released the first preview version of the JavaFX SDK. Head over to JavaFX.com to check it out. We've all been working very hard on it for the last few months, so it's quite a relief to have it out. You can see my first post on our new official JavaFX blog. In this post I'll show you the code to build this graphical goodie below. (sorry, no snails involved Coté)

rotating, but not snails

Have fun!

Comments

• congrats to all of you guys !

  Posted by: liquid on July 31, 2008 at 06:05 AM

• So I already have Netbeans 6.1 and tried to download the new javafx plugin seperately. I followed the instructions on javafx.com (beta netbeans update site, etc.) but the 'Plugins' dialog does not have an 'Available Plugin' for javafx.

  Any idea what I might be missing?

  Posted by: jseltzer on July 31, 2008 at 06:49 AM

• Congratulations...
  now let's rock some Java on the web:))

  Posted by: javathreads on July 31, 2008 at 08:40 AM

• jseltzer I recommend getting the NB + JavaFX download. The installer should skip installing NB itself if you already have it.

  Posted by: joshy on July 31, 2008 at 09:42 AM

• Congrats! Looks like great stuff. Can't wait to try it.

  What about having a JavaFX tutorial as the Java tutorial available now? We're missing real demos. The demos available are cool but not real apps. When will we see the source code of the demo of the JavaFX app presented at Javaone?

  Posted by: carcour on July 31, 2008 at 09:51 AM

• Thats awesome. But how do I play with it on Linux. I only get mac and windows download options..

  Posted by: mosabua on July 31, 2008 at 12:01 PM

• Hmm, been waiting a long time for this news but it seems that Linux users were forgotten.
  

  Posted by: keeskuip on July 31, 2008 at 12:39 PM

• Hey Josh--as always, very nice little demo. A couple of points.

  1) Is this packed with pack200?
  2) Is it required to sign all FX JNLP apps? If not, why are you signing yours?

  Keep up the good work, I was kind sort waiting for a follow up to your lights out game...

  Cheers
  Patrick

  Posted by: pdoubleya on July 31, 2008 at 12:41 PM

• pdoubleya Currently you must sign apps to use a lot of the features of the JavaFX runtime. (they may work in some cases without signing, but I always sign just in case). We are working out these details and will provide a Sun hosted and/or bundled version of the JavaFX runtime in the future. This version will be signed by Sun and be cached so you only have to download it once (if at all).

  Posted by: joshy on July 31, 2008 at 12:56 PM

• I've gotten the word on support for other operating systems besides Win/Mac.

  The JavaFX Preview SDK currently supports use on Windows and Mac OSX desktops running Java SE 6. JavaFX applications produced by this SDK may run on other desktop environments, but these are not officially supported at this time. We will continue to evaluate additional operating system platform support as we move towards our 1.0 release and beyond.

  Posted by: joshy on July 31, 2008 at 03:59 PM

• Hm.. thats a sad state of affairs. No Linux and no OpenSolaris version. What an interesting decision to make. Not sure what to make of it.

  Posted by: mosabua on July 31, 2008 at 11:06 PM

• +1 for linux support

  Posted by: francisdb on August 04, 2008 at 03:33 AM

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