Oracle Open Sourcing JavaFX, Including iOS and Android Ports

[wraggster]

Oracle is going to open source JavaFX ports for Android and iOS (http://paritynews.com/software/item/627-oracle-to-open-source-ios-android-ports-of-javafx-soon) soon as a part of its efforts to open source the framework. JavaFX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX), destined to replace Swing GUI library as the default method to develop graphical user interfaces, is a framework used to develop cross-platform rich Internet applications. The ports for iOS and Android are based on an 'unreleased version of JavaSE Embedded for iOS/Android.' Oracle's Richard Bair revealed that the 'first bits and pieces' for JavaFX for iOS should probably be out sometime next week (http://fxexperience.com/2013/02/february-open-source-update/). The rest of the release will be scheduled along with the release of Prism (the next-generation toolkit). Oracle is going to keep javafx-font proprietary, but Bair has said developers are already working toward an open source native replacement of the component through the OpenJFX list.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/13/171227/oracle-open-sourcing-javafx-including-ios-and-android-ports