Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas's Blog

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. His general area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and represents Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 15 years of software development experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.

JavaFX - Reinvigorating Java on the client

As one of the original fans of "Java on client," the launch of the preview SDK at http://www.javafx.com is a step in reinvigorating Java on the client.

The recent encouraging work on Java deployment at https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6u10ea.html with the complete rearchitecting of the Java plugins and applets and essentially unifying them is really promising.

However, there is still a lot of work to be done. It's the preview SDK. Although a lot of work has gone into it, it's not cross platform (yet).

Hoping that the v1.0 will be real kick ass with feedback from developers and designers. In the meantime, I better update my HOL that I presented at JavaOne which is completely out of date :-)

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