Oracle commitment to JavaFX?

JoseHeitor

Hi,

Our team is about to embark on a 3-4 year Point-Of-Sale system upgrade/redevelopment project, and we have identified JavaFX as the most appropriate technology for the GUI of the POS terminal component. The product is then anticipated to service customers in the industry for another 10-15 years.

I would like to know how to contact someone from Oracle, in JavaFX's steering comity, in order to get some feedback into Oracle's commitment to support and actively maintain and develop the JavaFX technology for the next 10-20 years?

Would also appreciate links to any published resources that will help us gain insight into this matter...

Thanks,

Jose

Manius

It's hard to get anything like that for any product.  Actually Oracle is funny, because any written statement of this nature will always include the lawyer's fine print section at the end where it explicitly states things like "This document's contents do not represent a commitment to provide any product or service."  (I know, because I've seen this for another product of theirs.)  So any corporate "commitment" IMO is useless. 

10-20 years is a long time in IT.  But the fact is that JFX is part of the Java 8 (and 9) SDKs.  Java 9's end of life (end of support) can be guessed at based on past versions, which as you can see go far into the future:

Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap*
Major Release	GA Date	Premier Support Until**	Extended Support Until**	Sustaining Support**
5.0	May 2004	May 2011	May 2015	Indefinite
6	Dec 2006	Dec 2015	Dec 2018	Indefinite
7	Jul 2011	Jul 2019	Jul 2022	Indefinite
8	Mar 2014	Mar 2022	Mar 2025	Indefinite

Also, there's another thread (probably more) down below where this was already addressed: Oracle is still committed to JavaFX and it will still be around for a while

Manius

It's hard to get anything like that for any product.  Actually Oracle is funny, because any written statement of this nature will always include the lawyer's fine print section at the end where it explicitly states things like "This document's contents do not represent a commitment to provide any product or service."  (I know, because I've seen this for another product of theirs.)  So any corporate "commitment" IMO is useless. 

10-20 years is a long time in IT.  But the fact is that JFX is part of the Java 8 (and 9) SDKs.  Java 9's end of life (end of support) can be guessed at based on past versions, which as you can see go far into the future:

Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap*
Major Release	GA Date	Premier Support Until**	Extended Support Until**	Sustaining Support**
5.0	May 2004	May 2011	May 2015	Indefinite
6	Dec 2006	Dec 2015	Dec 2018	Indefinite
7	Jul 2011	Jul 2019	Jul 2022	Indefinite
8	Mar 2014	Mar 2022	Mar 2025	Indefinite

Also, there's another thread (probably more) down below where this was already addressed: Oracle is still committed to JavaFX and it will still be around for a while