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As Eric pointed out, it's all about depmoylent. The reason Flash now owns a monopoly in this field is the ease of depmoylent. It's rather transparent. Go to a flash site that requires some version of flash, you get a popup asking to install the plugin, < 1 minute and you're done (unless you're on dialup:-).I also agree with Cedric. Java is perfectly OK for rich gui environment creation (groovy is probably fine too, never tried it). Not sure why create another scripting language, other than to compete with AS3. Either way, good luck to sun, but it's doomed to fail before even the first release.