New Feature-Rich JavaFX-Based Applications Provide Connected and Interactive User Experiences for Fantasy Baseball Participants
News Facts
- MLB Advanced Media, LP has enhanced its MLB.com
Fantasy Baseball game with two innovative applications that use JavaFX technology to deliver
interactive and expressive user experiences. - Oracle provides MLB.com with an end-to-end technology
solution, as the applications and services are built and delivered using Oracle’s Sun Server and Storage Systems, Oracle
Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and now, JavaFX and the Java platform
to deliver a compelling user experience. - JavaFX enables MLB.com to leverage its existing Java
platform experience and skills to create, maintain and support rich client
applications for thousands of fantasy baseball players each week. - The Fantasy Live Draft application allows each fantasy
team owner to interact dynamically with the thousands of fantasy leagues created
annually. Each Fantasy Live Draft application is connected to the league’s draft
service – with the server managing player selection, instant messaging between
team managers and real time updating of roster selection for each instance of
the application. - The Live Scoreboard application allows users to see their
team’s up-to-the-minute statistics, as roster players earn fantasy points during
live baseball games. Players also can browse head-to-head comparisons of earned
points versus other teams in their league.
Supporting Quotes
- “MLB.com is proud of its long-standing technology
relationship with Sun and Oracle, one that dates back to our inception a decade
ago. Powering fantasy baseball is a complex enterprise-class application and one
that requires massive volumes of data that is constantly updated over the course
of an entire season of games. JavaFX has made it more efficient to build and
extend our live Fantasy Baseball applications by leveraging our extensive
knowledge of the Java platform,” said Joe Choti, CTO, MLB.com. - “MLB.com’s Fantasy Baseball applications are yet another
example of how companies are leveraging JavaFX technology to create an
unparalleled user experience for consumers,” said Hasan Rizvi, senior vice
president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java. “The MLB.com Fantasy Baseball
applications manage vast amounts of ever changing data for fun, but intense,
fantasy sports competitions. We are continuing to accelerate the development of
JavaFX and are working with key customers like MLB.com to advance its position
in the rich client development platform market segment.”
