JavaFX on iOS - viable or pipe dream?

[Tobias Bley]

No no, I wonder why no one has answered you....





Am 29.05.2012 um 11:11 schrieb "John C. Turnbull" <ozemale at ozemail.com.au>:

> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Did you send answers to me personally?  I didn't get any :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Bley [mailto:tobi at ultramixer.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:18
> To: John C. Turnbull
> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: JavaFX on iOS - viable or pipe dream?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> did you get any answers?
> 
> Tobi
> 
> 
> Am 11.05.2012 um 11:28 schrieb John C. Turnbull <ozemale at ozemail.com.au>:
> 
>> I see with much excitement that there have now been numerous 
>> demonstrations of JavaFX running on iOS.  Let's face it, JavaFX cannot 
>> really be considered a true success if it doesn't run and run well on 
>> arguably the most significant platforms in use today namely tablets 
>> and mobile phones for which iOS is the most critical.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Having small demo applications run on iOS is one thing but are we just 
>> dreaming?  I mean this is a great first step but will Apple ever allow 
>> Java or JavaFX to run on iOS?  They have stated quite publicly that 
>> they are determined to prevent so-called "meta platforms" running on 
>> iOS (think Flash, Silverlight) so why should JavaFX be any different?  
>> I realise the JRE will be statically linked but Java is (by Apple's 
>> definitions at least) a "meta platform".  Historically they have 
>> tended to be rather fussy in this area and they make the rules.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Another concern is could an app burdened with a heavy and intermediate 
>> layer in the JRE perform like a "native" app on ARM and other 
>> relatively low powered CPUs?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Clearly the JavaFX community wants it to run on iOS more than any 
>> other unsupported platform and many see this is as an absolute 
>> priority for Oracle.  Perhaps now that Steve Jobs has left the 
>> building things have mellowed over at Apple but is it possible someone 
>> from the JavaFX development could comment on how they intend to overcome
> these issues?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -jct
>> 
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