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POPros and Cons of JavaFX and Silverlight
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copied!<p>I know there is already a question about the performance of Flex, JavaFX, and Silverlight. My question is a bit more broad:</p> <p>We are evaluating the merits of JavaFX and Silverlight to serve as the GUI technology that controls/configures our back-end service (currently written in Java). The service and GUI are usually on the same machine, but remote management (via browser) must also be supported. We are currently split into 2 teams: one .Net and one Java, although the Java developers also have some .Net experience.</p> <p>As I see it, the pros & cons are currently the following: </p> <h3>Silverlight 4:</h3> <ul> <li>Pros: <ul> <li>Excellent IDE integration</li> <li>Good developer-designer workflow</li> <li>Performance</li> <li>Extensive 3rd-party support (tools, controls, etc)</li> <li>Lots of momentum and drive from Microsoft</li> <li>Very good out-of-browser integration</li> </ul></li> <li>Cons: <ul> <li>Only supported on Mac & Windows (Moonlight support is not up to standard) </li> </ul></li> </ul> <h3>JavaFX 1.2:</h3> <ul> <li>Pros: <ul> <li>Wide platform support</li> </ul></li> <li>Cons: <ul> <li>Only supports Latin character sets (at this time)</li> <li>Fewer designer tools</li> <li><strike>Little or no out-of-browser integration</strike>. Update: apparently there is out-of-browser support.</li> <li>Performance (at least on the demos I viewed at www.javafx.com)</li> <li>Maturity</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>Please let me know if I'm missing anything or mistaken about something, and what else I haven't considered. We also looked at Adobe AIR, but ruled it out because all our developers already have experience in Java and/or .Net.</p> <p>Please don't start any flame wars here. This is not a religious question, and I really would like some practical advice and facts.</p>

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