Arnotify

When building applications using Flex (for AIR or Flash Player), you can use declarative programming to specify part of your user interface. The declarative language of Flex is XML-based and called MXML.

Here’s a simple app in Flex/MXML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 
  layout="absolute" 
  title="Hello Rich Internet Application"
  backgroundColor="#FFFFFF"
  >
 <mx:VBox horizontalAlign="center" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
  <mx:Button 
   label="Click Me" 
   click="mx.controls.Alert.show(
    'ActionScript and Flex are a match made in heaven!', 
    'Flex Rocks!');"/>
  <mx:Label 
   fontSize="24" 
   fontWeight="bold"
   color="#1A49DF" 
   text="Flex Makes RIA Development Easy" 
   />
 </mx:VBox>
 
</mx:WindowedApplication>

Here’s the equivalent app in JavaFX:

/*
 *  HelloCompiledJavaFX.fx - A "Hello World" style, but slightly more 
 *                           sophisticated, compiled JavaFX Script example
 *
 *  Developed 2008 by James L. Weaver (jim.weaver at lat-inc.com)
 *  to serve as a compiled JavaFX Script example.
 */
package mypackage;

import javafx.ui.*;
import javafx.ui.canvas.*;

Frame {
  title: "Hello Rich Internet Applications!"
  width: 550
  height: 200
  background: Color.WHITE
  visible: true
  content:
    BorderPanel {
      top:
        FlowPanel {
          content:
            Button {
              text: "Click Me"
              action:
                function():Void {
                  MessageDialog {
                    title: "JavaFX Script Rocks!"
                    // This string has a newline in the source code
                    message: "JavaFX Script is Simple, Elegant, 
and Leverages the Power of Java" 
                    visible: true
                  }
                }
            }
        }
      center:
        Canvas {
          content:
            Text {
              font: 
                Font {
                  faceName: "Sans Serif"
                  style: FontStyle.BOLD
                  size: 24
                }
              x: 20
              y: 40
              stroke: Color.BLUE
              fill: Color.BLUE
              content: "JavaFX Script Makes RIA Development Easy"
            }
        }
    }
}


(from http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafx/ria_1/)