Comments on: JavaFX vs Adobe AIR vs WPF/XAML/Silverlight

By: cuixu

cuixu — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:42:33 +0000

I think this battle actually helps developers. I use AIR and I love it (I actually build a serious program with AIR, Peaya Paper) — but there are some obvious feature AIR should include but not (such as launch native application, multi thread etc). Hopefully this competition will make Adobe do what is good for developers.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:15:30 +0000

> JavaFX doesn’t deploy to LINUX

In one of the December Java Posse podcasts, there was some surprise from the windows users that the linux and mac users were able to get JavaFX running.

Just not accelerated yet from what I remember.

By: Titanium vs. OpenLazlo vs. Adobe AIR vs. Silverlight/WPF vs. JavaFX: Round 2 « Social Mode

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:15:36 +0000

[...] 9, 2008 by un1crom Well, I got a comment on my last RIA post and saw the news on techcrunch that the RIA platform space just got a little more [...]

By: un1crom

un1crom — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:59:06 +0000

David,

Thanks for the info. I downloaded and am playing with the PR1 release now.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

How does this compete and compare to OpenLazlo, in your opinion?

I left that out of my list only because so few people get it and its more of a “meta” platform sorta like what Titanium app sounds like.

By: Appcelerator

Appcelerator — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:09:07 +0000

Based on these important concerns you highlighted, thought you’d like to hear about an open source alternative to AIR. We just launched a preview release of Titanium – it’s built on top of open source technologies like Webkit and Google Gears, and allows developers to build rich desktop apps using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript, as well as Flash and Silverlight. Titanium runs on Windows and Mac, and will run on Linux starting in January.
You can check it out here: http://titaniumapp.com

David at Appcelerator

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:09:53 +0000

Yes, but it’s already a laggard/imitator. FreePascal/Lazarus are behind even more, except being cross-platform. I do appreciate the developers’ efforts, however.

Thanks for the tip. I wasn’t going to look into RIA until I have a strong AJAX understanding anyway.

By: un1crom

un1crom — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:41:01 +0000

Delphi’s not dead yet! It has many modern implementations and is still being used in many shops.

I wouldn’t migrate to any particular RIA. I would learn the basics of the paradigm and these are the same as Web Services and AJAX, the cool hip words before RIA.

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:31 +0000

Thanks for the informative article!
I’m not doing any RIA development, just researching.
After a few years of development with Delphi , I’m now very carefully choosing my future development platform. It would be too sad seeing AIR, Silverlight or JavaFX facing the fate of Delphi. Web is based on open and quickly evolving standards, that won’t end up in stagnation. And one cannot be so sure about mentioned RIA platforms…