I'm trying to determine the suitability of JavaFX2 for a project. I've heard many wonderful thing, but struggling to seperate the fact from the fiction and hoping the hive mind can shine a light.
The project is a java daemon running on a server (Linux, Windows) on a constant basis with a user interface available for access to config and view generated data. What I would like to do is the user to connect to the server and have a JavaFX program be downloaded and run, being able to connect to the server via REST calls (for example).
Is it possible to have this pure java server run, and just package the JavaFX application for download? Does the server environment impact whether the JavaFX will run? Will I have to run some form of webserver (Jetty?) to make this happen?
I appreciate the question is vague - I'm finding some of the terminology tricky so I'll edit and refine on demand. Thanks for your time