F3 gives me a reason to re-thinking about going Flash; oh, and Groovy ..

I probably should have posted this in my Webtops & RIA blog. Anyway ..

"F3 is a statically typed language that allows good integrated development environment (IDE) support and compile-time error reporting and has type inference, declarative syntax, and automatic data binding with full support for 2-D graphics and standard Swing components as well as declarative animation. You can also import Java class files, create new objects for the Java platform, call their methods, and implement interfaces for the Java platform."

http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/category/F3

Groovy
http://groovy.codehaus.org/

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Crossplatform is also important for RIA and Apollo is not ready for Linux!