What is LWUIT? and What is JavaFX Mobile?

What is LWUIT? and What is JavaFX Mobile?

• LWUIT (Lightweight UI Toolkit) is a UI toolkit library for Java ME.

LWUIT is aimed at current Java MIDP and Swing developers who are looking to enhance the interfaces of new or existing Java ME applications on MIDP 2.0 devices. LWUIT offers pre-made graphical functions and features that developers can quickly and easily assemble into a compelling interface. LWUIT allows developers to worry less about the building blocks and instead focus on a consistent and richer interface across phones. As a binary library that developers simply deploy together with their applications LWUIT works on the vast majority of today's mobile phones and platforms supporting MIDP 2 (including Windows Mobile as described here) as well as MSA devices going forward.

In short, LWUIT is the solution for building attractive and engaging applications on mass-market devices today.

• JavaFX Mobile is a Java ME platform with the JavaFX runtime (including JavaFX Script) on top of it.

JavaFX Mobile is targeted at developers, designers, and scripters who are looking to create very rich, very immersive experiences across the "screens of your life" (phone, desktop, TV, etc.). The amount of interactivity, animation, and control over the user's screen brings a new level of functionality to devices. Java FX Mobile requires MSA-enabled platforms which comprise the small but growing higher end of the mobile space - smart phones and high end feature phones.

JavaFX uses JavaFX Script, a declarative statically typed scripting language that allows people to build out interfaces by describing the functionality that they want to see, instead of building it from the ground up. This lets them think creatively and be creative. JavaFX includes scalable fonts, 2D graphics, rich animations, integrated audio and video, and as noted, you can build apps that will run across all the screens of your life. In addition, with JavaFX, you can use design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator to build out graphical elements and even entire interfaces that you can directly build into and manipulate within JavaFX. This lets the designers and developers work much more closely and efficiently together.

In short, JavaFX Mobile is the next quantum leap for the mobile Java platform - coming to devices in 2009.

Reference : http://weblogs.java.net