Submission + - Will JavaFX Trump Ajax and Flash
An anonymous reader writes: The single biggest announcement of JavaOne this year was Chris Oliver's JavaFX Script, a declarative language for writing Flash-like rich Internet applications. Equally important, the Java virtual machine is opening up to scripting languages like Ruby, Groovy, and Scala. This will enable it to enter new domains that were previously the fiefdom of scripting languages like Python and Perl. JavaFX Script is a step into the rich Internet application domain pioneered by the Java platform but more recently colonized by Flash and Ajax.