Chnaging the platform

Recently, since a month or so you would have seen a lot of ads about microsoft's new
web platform named silverlight. Just a week ago another type of scripting for the java platform
which promoted more and better graphics to your web applications named java fx was released by sun. Both of them are applications which will change the platform of the web. Even though
they have similar advantages and problems, they work in a completely different way.

Silverlight which allows developers to program applications or whole web sites on
XAML (extensive application markup language) gives a set of tools for the visual studio 2008 or visual web developer 2005 express edition with SP1, to make development and deployment of
applications and websites easier than just typing lines of code on the command line.

The silverlight based applications are not as quick as the regular web applications, but are much
faster that the ones based on JavaFX.

Applications can be programmed with JavaFX either on command line or even with the
help of it's plugin for NetBeans 6.5. A user can run JavaFX based applications if he has
the java platform installed on his computer and browser. This makes it more compatible as, today most of the computers have the java platform installed on them.

Compatibility is not a problem with Silverlight too. The latest version of this magnificent
platform can be installed on all modern browsers like firefox, netscape, opera and safari.
The size of the download is hardly 2-3 mb.

Both the platforms only work on Windows and Macintosh. The JavaFX will soon or later release an installation for Solaris and Linux.

Silverlight gives the developer a number of inbuilt controls and widgets that he can customize
to his needs, whereas in JavaFX the developer can build his own controls using basic shapes and events.

We can never say which platform will be used more, so it is better to keep both installed.
They have a long way to go!