JavaFX isn't hard to learn, and with the right IDE and a complete JavaFX tutorial to teach the core concepts, you'll be an expert in no time.

But it faces quite a battle in the space against the established Adobe Flash and AJAX platforms and Microsoft's up-and-coming Silverlight.

JavaFX 2.0 will boast improvements like Java APIs for JavaFX, embedding HTML content within a JavaFX app, and improved deployment JavaFX 2.0, an upgrade to the Java-based rich client application ...

Sun throws JavaFX hat into Web app ring Programmers now can start trying out JavaFX for writing rich Internet applications--and seeing if it's worth using over Adobe's Flash and other alternatives.