Josh Fruhlinger
Contributing Writer

Today in mean things said about JavaFX on the Internet

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Jul 23, 20082 mins

The Tech Per blog is fed up with JavaFX:

A couple of weeks ago, while I had a fun day with a bunch of my colleagues, showing them the wonders of flex development, another two of my bright colleagues used that same day, to uncover how far JavaFX is now, and what could be done with the technology today. And the answer was horrifying. It is still not done and production ready. The JavaFX project has been around for quite some time now, and it is still not done. It does not seem to be even remotely close to production quality. It just stays unfinished.

But wait! A commentor leaps to the beleaguered technology’s defense!

We are developing a very large scale enterprise application that will utilize JavaFX. Obviously we considered Flash/Flex and Silverlight, but in the end ‘Bet the farm’ and chose JavaFX. We have been pleasantly surprised with the advancement of the language and the unbelievable support and commitment we’ve received from Sun. All I can say is that people are going to be ~very~ surprised.

Could anyone point us to any very large scale enterprise applications based on JavaFX in the field right now? We’d be impressed.