JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week Sun will release a preview version of the JavaFX Software Development Kit later this week, fulfilling a pledge made at JavaOne this year.

Tellingly, even the JavaFX home page doesn’t actually use JavaFX; it uses Ajax and Quicktime movies. While Sun and Adobe plan on being RIA kingpins both are coming at it from different angles.

JavaFX has been Java’s under-the-radar platform for building rich client applications. While it hasn’t garnered the attention that rival platforms like Adobe Flash or JavaScript have received ...