Sun Introducing JavaFX as an alternative to AJAX

r7 writes: Internetnews is reporting Sun's introduction of JavaFX at JavaOne today. Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. Does this really spell the end of AJAX? I sure hope so. Nothing built on javascript will ever achieve the security, cross-platform reliability, and programmatic friendliness needed to enabled Web 2.0. Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in are also dead-ends. This leaves an opportunity that JavaFX has the potential to satisfy even better than did Java over a decade ago. Along with AJAX let's hope JavaF also spells the end to Microsoft's viral Active-X and JScript, AND, perhaps more importantly, that it really is a web scripting language that developers can grok.