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Sun sneaks JavaFX Mobile into desktop FX

 
Any RIA in a storm Sun Microsystems, it is generally felt, lost the desktop to Microsoft a long time ago. Aware of this, Sun in recent years evangelized mobile as Java's habitat - mobile is, after all, where Microsoft's at its weakest.… (link)

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