Sun Releases Preview of JavaFX

Sun has published a preview of Javafx, a family of products for creating rich internet applications (RIA) with immersive media and content, across all the screens of your life. It includes a runtime and a tools suite that web scriptersm designers and developers can use to quickly build an deliver the next generation of rich interactive applications for desktop, mobile devices, TV, and other platforms.

JavaFX tools suite will provide a suite of developer and authoring tools that bridge the gap between user experience design and development logic, providing desingers and developers unprecedented collaboration opportunities.

The framework was announced at the Javaone-event, there is a preview available of the SDK that includes a framework, a complier, version 6.1 from the NetBeans-ide and extensive documentation and examples.