Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?

Why should JavaFX work if Java applets don't work? All those new frameworks are completely useless because they require the installation of plugins or executables on the client.

Why invent a new language instead of using Javascript?

The goals of JavaFX are the same as the goals of Java ME and Java SE. Java ME and Java SE have basically failed to live up to their expectations. Why not fix Java ME and Java SE instead of inventing something new? And, why should we expect that JavaFX will succeed where Java ME and SE have failed?

Hopefully this will end the horror that is writing Java GUI's in Swing, but I am severely skeptical of this somehow knocking out AJAX. It'll probably do well in the corporate world, where people actually use Java and where its "no code needed" approach seems to be targeted, but I can't see serious developers flocking towards it.

Of course, opinions can change when I actually see the damn thing, rather than just hear Sun guys blathering on about it, but I doubt they will.

Signs point to no.

No.

Does it? Blogga, PLEASE.

Ha ha :) Was there something really wrong with AJAX? I gues s these products are aimed at corporate drones who want AJAX for buzzword-compliance reasons, not because they actually know anything about it.