Programmers now can start trying out JavaFX for writing rich Internet applications--and seeing if it's worth using over Adobe's Flash and other alternatives. Sun Microsystems on Thursday released a ...

Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boost Java’s waning relevance for client-side ...

(Such support won’t be available to mortals until the JavaFX 1.1 release, but that should be coming soon enough.) And with that ease of development, why, nobody would ever need Java ME ever again, ...