Announcing the JavaFXpert RIA Exemplar Challenge

I posed the question "Should There be Enterprise RIA Style Guidelines?" on JavaLobby in late 2008, and received some valuable feedback/discussion.  Based upon that feedback, I'm replacing my question with the following challenge:

"Create an application in JavaFX that exemplifies the appearance and behavior of a next-generation enterprise RIA application".

Here are the rules to this JavaFXpert RIA Exemplar Challenge:

1) Each application must be created in JavaFX by a team consisting of two participants: A graphic designer, and an application developer.  Both participants on the winning team will be recognized, and will share the prize.

2) The code must be offered as open source, in the form of the updated Berkeley Software Distribution License.  The code for the winning entry will be added to the open source JFXtras project samples library.

3) The entries must be submitted in the form of a NetBeans project by 00:00 GMT on 10 January 2010.  I'll provide an email address for submissions soon.  The entries will be judged by one JavaFX developer (Jim Weaver), and one graphics designer (I'll let you know who this is as soon as I've chosen him/her).  The criteria for judging will be how well we feel that the entry "exemplifies the appearance and behavior of a next-generation enterprise RIA application".

4) The winning entry will be announced on 20 January 2010 on the JavaFXpert.com blog.

5) The prize, which is a cash award of USD 2000 (USD 1000 for each one of the two participants), will be awarded after the winning team is announced.

If you have any questions about this contest, please leave a comment on the associated JavaFXpert.com blog post.

Thanks, and have fun with the contest!

Jim Weaver
JavaFXpert.com