JavaFX has been announced twice, at subsequent JavaOnes, in 2007 and 2008. It started out as F3 (which stood for Form Follows Function), created by Chris Oliver as a Flash competitor for Java. Its main emphasis, as a scripting language, has been to make it easier to do graphics and web 2.0 interfaces with Java. In many ways, it has achieved this goal, twice.
The program Robert presents here demonstrates a method for rendering ellipses that's suited to the specific task of aligning ellipses to arbitrary curve segments using trigonometric splines.
Joe uses ColdFusion 8 to design and build an AdobeFlex RIA that enables collaborative management of a list of tasks using a rich front-end and real-time communications.
The Nokia N810 isn't really a phone. It's a Linux-based Internet tablet with wireless connection options—and you can write and run Java applications with it.
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