I work in a shop that uses JDeveloper to develop and test several web and jnlp swing desktop applications. Recently we migrated to Java 1.6.0_16. We experienced some trouble with Jdeveloper and our Design mode. We couldn't see the GUI's. To fix this we had to place java 1.6 sdk in the JDev java folder. At this upgrade, we found that several of technologies that we rely on heavily are becoming increasely obsolete and hard to support. One notable example is XMLC, which we use to connect HTML to our java servlets.
Migration got us thinking about current and future technologies. We asked the question, "What tool/language/library could we use to create web pages, desktop applications and mobile apps?" One enticing offering is JavaFX. We did some initial testing and found that JavaFX could be used to replace 4 or more HTML and Swing Front ends into one. The javafx code was simple to write, extremely expressive and powerful. It also proved simple to reuse all our exisiting VO's, DO's, webservices and business logic. And we had fun coding it.
We are working in JDeveloper. Unfortunately we couldn't figure out an easy way to use Jdeveloper and JavaFX. To get the two working together for our test demo, we had to jar our modules up in jars and import them into a NetBeans JavaFX project. This was good enough for our testing. It will not be good enough for long term development.
We don't want to port our code to NetBeans or Eclipse to use JavaFX but at present, there seems to be no other choices.
In making plans for our next tool-set, we have the following questions:
1. Are there plans for JDeveloper to have JavaFX integration?
2. Are there plans for project migration tools from/to JDeveloper and NetBeans?
3. Will Oracle support JavaFX or will it be dropped?
Thanks
Edited by: user10790252 on Oct 7, 2009 9:02 AM
