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Quick starts for AIR, Silverlight, and JavaFX

By Alexey Gavrilov on August 28, 2007

Yesterday DevX.com published my article Crash Course in Next-Gen RIA: AIR, Silverlight, and JavaFX. It provides a quick introduction to these technologies by showing how to build a simple stopwatch gadget with each if them (see the screenshot below).

stopwatch in silverlight, air, and javafx

This is my first experience writing for a magazine (right, it’s online only but still a very different genre from blogging) and overall I think it was the great exercise. I learned JavaFX basics while working on it, and built JavaFX version of the bubblemark consequently.

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3 Comments »

  1. javaFx is open and free software. :D

    Comment by Silveira Neto — February 3, 2008 @ 11:02 pm

  2. Wow, i loved this comparison… and the good thing is: Before your article i only knew about Silverlight and Air… i was not aware of JavaFX so far, but now i am *g* Thx :-)

    Infection for RIA started last week when we saw a short preview of Silverlight (including some Silverlight 2.0) on MS Launch 2008 Conference in Frankfurt (Germany). Good times seem to be ahead for Internet-based Applications.

    Comment by Hans-Jörg Stangor — February 26, 2008 @ 12:58 pm

  3. Silverlight, Air, JavaFX … wie wichtig werden RIAs?…

    Irgendwie ist der Markt der Rich Internet Applications (RIA) im Moment etwas verwirrend für mich. Vielleicht, weil ich mich erst seit der Erkenntnis, dass Silverlight irgendwie klasse aber andererseits irgendwie auch sehr nah an Flash ist, damit inten…

    Trackback by ME über IT — February 26, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

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