A new JavaFX 2.0 has been released! I remember that I have been trying for a while to work with previous versions 1.1 and 1.2, and to be honest it was horrible experience. I did that because I have been searching for the tool which allows to create true multimedia application in JAVA. Also I wanted to create a very nice GUI. Well I think that previous versions of JavaFX were completely failures...
Need to check 2.0 though, because I saw some video tutorials and it looks really nice!
UPDATE
So I could not resist myself and today I downloaded JDK 1.7u2 (with JavaFX 2.0 support) and NetBeans 7.1. Unfortunately I had to work on Windows, because I could not find proper version of JavaFx SDK for 64bit Linux, on which I usually work. I managed to do some simple tutorials from http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/index.html.
My first impression is that the whole API is very simple and in a few lines of code we get really nice GUI! What is more, there is also a set of classes that allows to integrate Swing with JavaFX. Not to mention about using CSS for application skinning and creating application layouts and components inside XML files. Oh! And there is even a possibility to use for example JavaScript or Groovy to write applications' logic!
Looking forward to JavaFX 2.0 for 64bit Linux architecture. Finally we can create nice looking desktop application in Java, which can also handle multimedia content as well. It is time to start thinking about rewriting my old Swing projects :)
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