I for one really wish that you would take some time off with your family as it appears that you are constantly working, and that's not good for anybody.
B4J was great out of the box but it is really coming of age with every update....as a good ordinary coder the animations are a real bonus (in B4a as well). I hope all especially Erel have a break for Xmas and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Thank you for your concerns Don't worry I don't work too hard. B4J and B4A (and B4i to a lesser degree) share a large portion of the source code. So it is not very difficult to update B4J after updating B4A.
There are several reasons:
1. There is a good designer already tool available.
2. JavaFX UI is quite complicated with all the CSS styling. It would have required a lot of work to implement a powerful tool.
3. B4A and B4i visual designer and the designer scripts are more suitable for "static" screens. The available size can change from time to time but the changes are discreet. This is not the case in a desktop app where the user can resize the form.
Hi Erel, I am proposing B4j to have more server side functionality rather than a desktop application's vision. What is missing .... the harbinate orm functionality, a web framework like spring, Jsf or vaadin.
Also I would like to propose to create a separate a market place for both b4a, b4i and b4j and the possibility to protect module and class code from editing or review. So to have the ability to sell officially our work on other programmers.