Future of JavaFx and commitment from Sun

Hi All,
I wanted to get some insight into the level of investment an organization could make into adopting JavaFX as the preferred UI technology for their products/applications. Is Sun committed to promoting JavaFX and making it production quality and implementing with time all the missing UI components? What is th efuture of JavaFx after the Sun-Oracle merger?
thanks
Sanjeev

Hi Sanjeev
in my opinion:
JavaFX is a promising technology but it is currently too green to consider use in a serious application. To my knowledge, only one company has so far released a serious product written in JavaFX (Indaba), but I've never used it and they themselves describe it as "alpha". I believe Indaba went with JavaFx because they were reliant on Java APIs (they were originally going to use Flash)
The JavaFX team seem to be working hard on improving the technology, particularly around performance, however it is still quite buggy, and this will hamper efforts to produce a serious application. Also, as you mention, there are gaps in the components available for use in applications. There is also work going on for tooling.
There are very little public facts available on the future of JavaFX (aside from sporadic marketing pushes). Oracle made a public commitment to JavaFX at JavaOne, but I don't know whether you can bet a corporate strategy on that alone. We know that future releases are coming, albeit at a slow pace.
It would be great if Sun/Oracle could come up with something more detailed, as I think that (alongside a stable platform) would do a lot to increase the confidence of developers.
My guess is that it will end up as a stable technology, though I've no idea how long this will take. To that end, I would closely monitor the progress of the technology but maybe not adopt it as the preferred technology just yet.

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