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The windows version of JavaFX 2.0 has been released and is available to download from the JavaFX website. A JavaFX 2.0 Developer Preview release for the Mac OS X (10.6 or higher) can also be found on the same page.

If you want to find out what's in JavaFX 2.0 there is a JavaFX FAQ and features overview. The key points are:

• new Java APIs for JavaFX - see the JavaFX 2.0 API documentation.
• an accelerated graphics pipeline (Prism).
• FXML - an xml-based scripting language for building user interfaces. It allows the embedding of any JVM scripting language.
• CSS3 styled UI controls.
• easy integration with Swing applications
• improved animation engine
• new audio/video media engine

Have a look at the JavaFX 2.0 release notes for known bugs and issues. An important note on the system requirements is the minimum supported JDK version for JavaFX 2.0 is JDK 6 Update 26.

JavaFX Roadmap

There are a few interesting points in the JavaFX roadmap:

• Oracle are planning to submit a proposal to open source Java FX in a new project on the OpenJDK.
• The general release version of JavaFX for Mac OS X (expected first half 2012) will only be supported on Mac OS X Lion (10.7) in conjunction with Java SE 7 for Mac OS X.
• JavaFX for Linux is expected at the end of 2012 - officially supported on Ubuntu.

JavaFX 2.0 Released originally appeared on About.com Focus on Java on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 12:14:56.

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