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It's a well-known fact that the Java client platform has for years suffered limitations that have made it a less desirable alternative to competitors such as Flash and Silverlight. For example, the entire Java Runtime Environment (JRE) must be present before an applet or Java Web Start application starts running. JREs keep getting bigger (JRE 6 exceeds 14 MB), so download times keep lengthening. To address this limitation and others, Sun engineers conceived of Java SE 6u10 (called the Consumer JRE when the early-access version came out in 2007, then Java SE 6uN). A beta version debuted in April 2008, and the final release was in October.
The following technologies in Java SE 6u10 help overcome JRE limitations:
Java SE 6u10 also includes bug fixes, Nimbus (which modernizes Java's cross-platform look and feel), a new graphics pipeline that uses Direct3D to accelerate Java2D graphics primitives on Windows, and support for translucent/shaped windows.
In December, Sun released Java SE 6u11. It focuses on security and bug fixes. A new download engine works with 6u10's patch-in-place strategy (future JRE updates are applied in the existing JRE directory so that only changed files need to be downloaded) to reduce the size of future updates. To avoid interfering with a user's Internet usage, this engine monitors that usage and throttles back its own bandwidth.
JavaFX was a source of both excitement and dismay in 2008, with three especially striking highlights. First, then-Sun employees Hans Muller and Chet Haase gave developers a peek into the Java-based scene graph and animation frameworks that would support JavaFX via Muller's Introducing the SceneGraph Project and Haase's Been There, Scene That, Part 1 and Part 2 blog posts.
Second was the launch of the JavaFX Preview SDK on July 31. It provided a JavaFX plugin for NetBeans 6.1, which let you easily compile scripts from the IDE. The Preview SDK also provided Project Nile, whose Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop plugins made it easy for content designers to export their designs to JavaFX developers.