Sun marches grimly forward with JavaFX despite the carnage

Earlier this week I picked up Tim O'Brien's suggestion that Sun's reorg might provide cover to kill off JavaFX. If this is the case, nobody seems to have told the emissaries Sun sent to the Adobe MAX conference. JavaFX is going to be ready before the end of the year, come hell or high water, says Sun's VP of Java marketing, Eric Klein. Klein also claims that Java is a moneymaker for Sun, through royalties from handset makers that put Java ME on their phones and Sun's baffling deal with Microsoft. InfoWorld's Paul Krill dryly notes that "Company officials did not provide specific monetary figures."

The always-cynical Register points out how far behind the other RIA platforms JavaFX is, and also notes an interesting effect of the reorg: JavaFX and NetBeans are now under different divisions, even though integration between the two was always one of Sun's big plans for pushing JavaFX. On a more positive note, apparently engineers have been hired for the JavaFX group from Apple -- there are worse places to poach from if you're talking GUIs.