No JavaFX for iOS, Android or WP - why not?

[Mark Fortner]

John,
The problem is we're not yet at a point where JavaFX components that can
fully replace their Swing equivalents.  And we may never get there if
vendors believe that there's no market for it (kind of a chicken and egg
problem).


> Should JavaFX be able to reuse Swing components?  I don't necessarily
> think it should.
>
> Existing swing components wont have the CSS styling and would look out of
> place surrounded by a Rich UI.  I feel JavaFX should be looking forward, as
> opposed to adding backward compatibility for various Swing libraries.
>  When/If JavaFX is supported on multiple OS's like iOS, Metro, Android,
> would users want to see a Swing component, or would they like to see a
> JavaFX component that looks exactly like it should?
>
>
I was speaking about desktop development/applet development primarily where
all of the current Swing development occurs.  The lack of CSS styling for
Swing components doesn't bother me that much and would be tolerable as an
interim solution until the JavaFX components are mature enough to be used
as replacements.



> Though there are swing component libraries that have the functionality
> that is needed in JavaFX, like as you mentioned JFreeCharts, but surely
> thats for a oracle/community to adopt and take forward.  To see that the
> community needs and look to address that with a new feature of JavaFX, or a
> new JavaFX library.  Swing libraries grew over time and started tackling
> the functionality that was missing in swing, like a property Chart AP,
> TreeTableView, etc, but we need groups like the JFXtras team to take up the
> baton.  That being said, I hope the next release of functionally for the
> JavaFX charts is somewhat comparable to the functionality offered in
> projects like JFreeCharts
>
>

Most of the JavaFX libraries I've seen so far provide toy widgets, but not
something that would necessarily be useful for corporate app development.
 Speedometer type dials, and battery gauges aren't really useful when
trying to display financial or scientific data.

Mark