So that is a rich application?
I visited java.net today and saw the headline "Create rich applications with JavaFX Script." Though I'm not what you would call adherent of the JavaFX dogma per se, I do like to keep abreast of what's going on. I've been watching it since it was F3.
So I clicked the link and to my utter dismay, the "rich application" was a calculator. A run of the mill, generic, basic four function calculator. WTF? What's with the wacky 7,4,1, and 0 buttons?
My definition of a rich application is something that is impeccably designed, clean and succinct, yet complex enough to give the everyday user something to aspire to. If it does look like a simple app, it must innovate on terseness of code or some other technical area. This "rich application" does neither. In this case a reimplementation would have been more palatable. Like this for example. A reimplementation can leverage the familiarity of the original in an attempt to understand the copy.
Now this is a rich calculator(from when JFX was F3): http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/macosdashboardwidgets
I liked the demos coming out of JFX back when it was F3. What's the deal now?
I still think it looks like an intepretation of a Groovy builder but that's already been discussed ad nauseam so I'm gonna leave it be.