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was commemorated in a blog post entitled “Congratulations to the JavaFX Script Compiler Team—The Elephant Is
Through the Door.” That phrase came from the JavaFX Script compiler project leader Tom Ball in a blog post, which
contained the following excerpt.
An elephant analogy came to me when I was recently grilled about exactly when the JavaFX Script
compiler team will deliver our first milestone release. “I can't give you an accurate date,” I said. “It's
like pushing an elephant through a door; until a critical mass makes it past the threshold you just
don't know when you'll be finished. Once you pass that threshold, though, the rest happens quickly
and in a manner that can be more accurately predicted.”
A screenshot of the silly, compiled JavaFX application written by one of the authors, Jim Weaver, for that post is
shown in Figure
1-1
, demonstrating that the project had in fact reached the critical mass to which Tom Ball referred.
Figure 1-1.
Screenshot for the “Elephant Is Through the Door” program
Much progress continued to be made on JavaFX in 2008:
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The NetBeans JavaFX plug-in became available for the compiled version in March 2008.
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Many of the JavaFX runtime libraries (mostly focusing on the UI aspects of JavaFX) were
rewritten by a team that included some very talented developers from the Java Swing team.
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In July 2008, the JavaFX Preview Software Development Kit (SDK) was released, and at
JavaOne 2008, Sun announced that the JavaFX 1.0 SDK would be released in fall 2008.
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On December 4, 2008, the JavaFX 1.0 SDK was released. This event increased the adoption
rate of JavaFX by developers and IT managers because it represented a stable codebase.
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In April 2009, Oracle and Sun announced that Oracle would be acquiring Sun. The JavaFX 1.2
SDK was released at JavaOne 2009.
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In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun. The JavaFX 1.3 SDK was released in
April 2010, with JavaFX 1.3.1 being the last of the 1.3 releases.
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