JavaFX vs Flex

[Jeremy Anderson]

With JavaFX being a very new player in the RIA game, how would you try to convince someone to use JavaFX for their next RIA instead of something like Flex which has already established itself?

[James Weaver]

The reason that I've chosen to develop in JavaFX Script is that it runs on the JVM and leverages the power of Java (it can instantiate, and call the methods of, any of the millions of Java classes that exist today or tomorrow.

Another reason is the simple and elegant declarative scripting, that among other things, allows you to put layout components in the UI containment hierarchy. See the first in a series of tutorials that I'm writing for Sun on compiled JavaFX Script for an example of this declarative scripting: