Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday with a series of keynote presentations designed to showcase JavaFX, the company's new rich internet-application ...

SAN FRANCISCO—With an eye toward making Java the platform of choice for “all the screens of their customers' lives,” Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday (Dec. 4) unveiled JavaFX, a platform said to merge ...

With Sun pushing JavaFX Desktop 1.0 out into the Rich Internet Application space last week (and Microsoft’s Silverlight & Adobe’s AIR already out there), the blending of the web with the desktop has ...

Sun had promised that JavaFX would be open source, but a FAQ on Sun's site indicates that only parts of the RIA development family will be open source While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the ...