Tools, Tools, Tools! Would scream the learned developer. Without tools, a great language is nothing. With tools, a moderate language can take over the market.
Granted, JavaFX is fresh out of the oven, and it does provide us with Eclipse and NetBeans plugins (which I haven’t tested myself yet) but what we need to see here is a set of tools, not just one or a plugin, which would help designers create amazing graphical experiences, would help developers bind between their current complex data models, and which would help to graphically bind between data model elements and graphical interface elements.
What I am waiting to see is essentially a JavaFX version of Interface Builder or Expression, along side with all the plugins which will become available with time.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I think that JavaFXPad is quite a nice way of experimenting. To me it shows that the programming tools that are required are of a different order to ordinary Java tools.
of course, media tools are always needed.
Andrew
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
While JavaFX Pad is nice and really “live” (by updating itself and allowing you to immediately play with the top area), it’s still not the tool I’d use to create a real application.
Compare that to NetBeans’ Matisse or Macromedia Flash MX – I want a toolbox! Dragging and dropping elements! With a little properties sheet where I can change small things like color and text font easily! And then, after all is set and done, I would sit and write the triggers’ code, rub in the animations and give the whole thing a little glitter.
I just want to write less in order to get more. I am that lazy.