Tomorrow is history making event at Sun Microsystems with their JavaFX release. This is a major event at Sun since their Java release, even eclipsing the OpenSolaris announcement. Sun took a bold step with burying J2ME and venturing on to a whole new direction, resulting in JavaFX.

Salute to Sun, the development team and also Jeet Kaul, Vice President of Client Software Group. Six months back, I had the opportunity of having lunch with him (Thanks to Rory for organizing it). We discussed very many things, of course JavaFX dominated the conversation. I was really excited to hear about it; back then everyone was still buzzing with iPhone/Android, meanwhile Sun was so focused on a getting a solid product out. Sun made a tough and bold decision, and they deserve success with it.

Never heard of JavaFX, here are some bytes:

What is JavaFX? JavaFX is a family of products and technologies from Sun Microsystems, first announced at the JavaOne developers conference in May 2007. The purpose of JavaFX is to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA), web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications, including interactive multimedia applications. The JavaFX products can build applications for desktop, mobile, TV and other platforms.

The best part of JavaFX is that you can reuse your existing investment in Java, smart move by Sun.