Re: Gosling on Oracle

The only thing that article references that I'm involved with is the JavaFX
development position:

"To be fair there was a job as a NASA contractor that did look pretty sweet
in the Java FX search..."

That was a position we were hiring for last year to support our JWST ground
system development.  Shai is a good guy and a smaryt one too but I
completely disagree with that article's conclusions. I believe the strong
correlation placed with lack of job search results on JavaFX and lack of
traction is false. The reason is that much of the new Java development is
done at the enterprise scale for internal systems, especially government.
Many of the existing Java developers are simply migrating to JavaFX. At the
time there was no need to advertise for JavaFX developers because most
staffing pools already had candidates.  Since that article there has been
an slow but steady uptick in JavaFX "hits" as new systems are starting to
roll out built on JavaFX.  You'll see more of this... though nothing of an
explosion... over the next few years.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 25 May 2016 at 13:06, Sean Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> > His thoughts on JavaFX resonate with me very strongly.  Like him I make
> data
> > intensive desktop apps, one reason why I love the NetBeans Platform so
> much.
> > I do not make web apps because the performance and customization just
> isn't
> > there.  I too am releasing boutique highly custom applications and I am
> also
> > "looking over my shoulder" as he said.
> >
> > But none of that means I will stop using Java/JavaFX/NetBeans as part of
> my
> > solution stack. They are the right tools for the job.  I would switch to
> > Unity before a web front-end.
>
> Couldn't agree more with what you've said there.  I'm far more
> concerned with what the desktop UI future holds.  What is the future
> around NetBeans platform, or AN Other next-gen RCP, that is JavaFX
> based?  Having two UI toolkits in one application is not ideal!
>
> This article at DZone is also interesting in this context (and is it
> referencing something you were involved in?!)
>
> https://dzone.com/articles/should-oracle-spring-clean-javafx
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Neil
>
>
>
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