According to Josh Marinacci, Linux and Solaris for JavaFX SDK 1.0 will be coming soon, but not in time for the JavaFX SDK 1.0 release. In his blog post, Josh states:
"We are going to support Linux and Solaris. We love both operating systems. Many of us use Linux every day. And Solaris is our own operating system. So we are working on it. And don't mean that in a "yeah, we'll get to it eventually" kind of way. I mean we are actively working on it right now. We have it in our continuous build system. Every time we build for Windows and Mac we are building for Linux and Solaris. We are fixing bugs in it. We are adding new features and testing. We are working on it and want to ship it just as much as you want to download it."
As a side note, Weiqi Gao has provided instructions for using the JavaFX SDK 1.0 on Linux. It may not be completely ready for prime time on Linux, but at least we'll hopefully have the option of experimenting with it on Linux in the meantime.
Thanks Josh and Weiqi,
Jim Weaver
JavaFXpert.com
To let JavaFX 1.1 work on Linux and Netbeans, Please goto http://java.dzone.com/tips/javafx-11-linux-netbeans
Posted by: HuaSong Liu | February 13, 2009 at 09:41 AM
To let JavaFX 1.1 work on Linux and Netbeans, Please goto http://java.dzone.com/tips/javafx-11-linux-netbeans
Posted by: HuaSong Liu | February 13, 2009 at 09:40 AM
James, thank...
I haven't been updating my blog for quite some times as one reason is that I find some of my posts get mysteriously "defaced" in Wordpress.com that the staff is still investigating, possibly that every post I created with image will mess up other posts'images somehow, much to my "horror", haha.
Anyway, I will be back updating my blog on JavaFX as soon as the staff fix the problem.
Posted by: GeekyCoder | December 06, 2008 at 01:47 AM
"I notice that many source codes from the following JAR are notably missing. Only a subset is found in src.zip of the JavaFX package."
GeekyCoder,
Good to hear from you again! Sun has not released the source code for the portions of JavaFX that aren't in the OpenJFX project. JAD and DJ Java are the best (free) bet for peeking under the hood that I know of.
Thanks,
Jim Weaver
Posted by: James Weaver | December 05, 2008 at 11:34 PM