https://hitesh.in/tags/javafx/ Recent content in Javafx on Dr. Hitesh Sarda Hugo en-US Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2009/javafx-1.2-first-impressions/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2009/javafx-1.2-first-impressions/ <p>Spent the last couple of days looking at Javafx, Sun&rsquo;s response to Silverlight and Flex. It is an interesting mix of ideas. Clearly inspired by dynamic languages as well as Silverlight. Maybe Flex as well, but I couldn&rsquo;t tell as I have not tried Flex.</p> <h6 id="things-i-liked">Things I liked:</h6> <ul> <li><strong>Type inference</strong>: Could have been better, but I will take this any day over the verbose Java alternate</li> <li><strong>Binding</strong>: In fact this is a great thing. Two way binding and binding with expression.</li> <li><strong>Triggers</strong>: Need to explore more, but shows promise.</li> <li><strong>Timelines</strong>: This along with the exceptional support for multimedia will help in creating the next killer app.</li> <li><strong>Collections</strong>: You can iterate over collections in SQL like syntax which,to me, looks better than LINQ.</li> <li><strong>Strings and Dates</strong>: Finally they get treated with the respect they deserve, since most of the time one is juggling text and dates.</li> </ul> <h6 id="things-i-am-meh-about">Things I am meh about:</h6> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Declarative UI design</strong>: I believe UI design is best left to designers (software not people)</p>