JavaFX as client

[Bill Shirley]

What transport mechanisms will be supported by JavaFX clients to Java servers? Binary serialization? Object graphs maintained? Will JNDI be included?

What type of user interface builder tools will be provided publicly?

[James Weaver]

One very cool thing about JavaFX Script is that it runs on the JVM and leverages the full power of Java. You can instantiate Java classes, call their methods, etc., so you can use any transport mechanism that you'd like (RMI, HTTP, etc). JavaFX Script also has some convenience classes for XML and JSON parsing and building. Here are couple of examples from my weblog of communicating with a server over HTTP, one using XML and the other using JSON:

A JavaFX Script Calendar that Displays a Google Calendar Feed

Compiled JavaFX Script Now Speaks JSON