{"id":1225,"date":"2009-02-16T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1225-have-you-seen-a-real-javafx-app-yet-suns-misleading-100-million-claim.html"},"modified":"2009-02-16T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:11:28","slug":"have-you-seen-a-real-javafx-app-yet-suns-misleading-100-million-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1225-have-you-seen-a-real-javafx-app-yet-suns-misleading-100-million-claim.html","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen a real JavaFX app yet? Sun\u2019s misleading 100 million claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t \u2013 only samples and demos. Which makes Jonathan Schwartz\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/jonathan\/entry\/javafx_hits_100_000_000\" target=\"_blank\">claim of 100,000,000 downloads<\/a>, presented as \u201cJavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milestone!\u201d, suspect. Still, I reckon there is an easy explanation. JavaFX is now included with the JRE, the standard Java runtime download. So what Schwartz means \u2013 please correct me if I am wrong \u2013 is that there have been 100,000,000 downloaded updates to the JRE (no doubt partly thanks to Sun\u2019s auto updater on Windows), since JavaFX became part of it.<\/p>\n<p>In order to test this theory, I fired up a virtual machine (using Sun\u2019s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualbox.org\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Box<\/a>) which runs Vista but does not have Java installed. Then I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/java.com\" target=\"_blank\">Java.com<\/a> and went for the free Java download. At the end of the install, I saw this dialog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/javafx-install.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Note: it says \u201cThe JavaFX runtime will be downloaded when you click Finish\u201d. There are no buttons aside from Finish, unless you count the close gadget. Therefore, I got JavaFX by default with the JRE.<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against JavaFX, but meaningless PR spin will do nothing to help the technology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:79745ecd-d231-4a83-adf3-4efc65885d53\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/javafx\" rel=\"tag\">javafx<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sun\" rel=\"tag\">sun<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t \u2013 only samples and demos. Which makes Jonathan Schwartz\u2019s claim of 100,000,000 downloads, presented as \u201cJavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milestone!\u201d, suspect. Still, I reckon there is an easy explanation. JavaFX is now included with the JRE, the standard Java runtime download. So what Schwartz means \u2013 please correct me if I am wrong \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1225-have-you-seen-a-real-javafx-app-yet-suns-misleading-100-million-claim.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have you seen a real JavaFX app yet? Sun\u2019s misleading 100 million claim<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}