The article isn't the clearest, but Flair seems likely to be a Smalltalk-like platform implemented in Javascript (and vice versa). Does this mean that client-side Java is now officially dead? Also, what will Flair's display engine be - does Sun have something that can compete with WPF or PDF?

(Via programming.reddit , courtesy of Reddit user crmaki .)

Not much meat in hte article but it is there though so we can take a view of what is going on.

Not much meat in that article.