Being part of a keynote at JavaOne is probably one of the cooler things you could experience being a developer. I just walked of the stage after Sony Ericssons General session at this years JavaOne where I wrote a small Twitter application using Java FX Mobile. You can find the application at the newly launched SELabs site.
The result is more impressive when you consider that the application I wrote runs on three different platforms, our entry 3G OSE based, Windows Mobiel and Symbian, and you only need one single binary for all of them.
Expect me to do some more Java FX Mobile in the future so stay tuned for more.
Erik,
Thanks for the great demo. I downloaded and looked at the jar file you published. It seems that the JavaFx code is wrapped in a Midlet.
I also installed the jar file on two different MSA compliant mobile phones and it seems that your JavaFx mobile app is able to run on these phones. Thus it seems that currently available phones are able to run JavaFx apps if you can present them in the form of a Midlet.
What I would like to know is if you used any special tools/libraries to build this example, that are not realesed to the public yet. If all the tools you used are currently available, could you give us some guidance as to how you managed to wrap your JavaFx code in a Midlet. I am sure that many developers would be interested in a tutorial that shows this.
Thanks,
Willy
Hi Willy,
Nice to hear you liked the show. Expect more JavaFX demos in the future.
Regarding tools; I did use a special Java FX SDK for this demo. It is yet not available for public release, but I hope it will be in a near future. Sun is responsible for the Java FX SDK, so I recommend talking to them about the possibility of deploying JavaFX Mobile as a MIDlet.
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the reply and information. I sort of expected that you used some dev tools that were not yet released. I did quite an exhaustive search on the internet and could not find anyone that knows how to do this.
I found the following article, http://javafx.com/docs/articles/midlet/ with the title “Enhance Your MIDlet With JavaFX Technology”, but this article does not include the technical details of how to do this.
I guess we will just have to be patient for a while longer.
Regards,
Willy