The marketing folks at Sun email me when things are being announced. They just let me know that a new JavaFX plugin for Eclipse has been released. As per the announcement that’ll sooner or later turn up on the official JavaFX blog:
A new version of the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse IDE has just been released! This latest version is based on the JavaFX 1.2.1 SDK and supports Eclipse 3.5.x IDE. Read the Release Notes to learn more about the changes made since the June 2009 release. Download this latest version using the instructions in the Getting Started document.
Let us know what you think of this new release by providing feedback on the Feedback Forum for JavaFX 1.2.1 Plugin Release page.
So, please, give it a whirl and leave feedback on this post if you like it, wish it were better/different, etc.
There are still no autocompletion for not imported classes (one has to import them be hand before ) it even didn’t autocompleted String class, or any key words!!!!!! sill no code formatting, not mentioning any refactoring
And I still get an error when I am trying to create script in not existing package.
I am very sad to say that this is still useless toy.
And I was so happy when I’ve read this info since I have presentation about JavaFX on my JUG on Tuesday 🙁
Michal: Thanks for the feedback. Do you want to email me your thoughts on the plugin, and I can send them on to the relevant people within Sun? That way we can at least communicate in a little more detail the issues you’re having.
Remember that there is always the alternative Exadel JavaFX plugin for Eclipse, and of course NetBeans has very good support for JavaFX also. If you aren’t happy with one JavaFX IDE/plugin, perhaps one of these alternatives better suits your needs. I’m very keen to hear about peoples experiences with these IDEs/plugins.
My email address is jonathan.giles@sun.com – please feel free to email me your thoughts. I’m not directly on the team responsible for the JavaFX editors/plugins, but I can get any constructive feedback you may have back to them.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hi Michael,
There is another JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse that Exadel (I work for Exadel) is developing. Give it a try.
You can download the plug-in here: http://exadel.com/web/portal/javafxstudio
Max
http://mkblog.exadel.com
Good news!
Maybe, Java FX in future really would be great replacement for Adobe Flash, especially for Mobiles / iPhone / Web games development.
Hi Max.
Maybe after reading me last post you find me as anti-JavaFX person, but I is just opposite ;). I am a huge JavaFX fun and I know about all IDE plugins for it.
And yes – excadel plugin is better then official one. But still better does not mean “good” 🙁
Yes, there is code competition for SOME classes (in example String , or Number;)) and keywords (but try to write “public” and then “function” – nothing :(). Sure we have some nice code templates for various components.
but:
1. I just tired Rect ctrl+space – no luck in auto completition Rectangle class
2. one can not create new class in not existing package,
3. there is no code formatting,
4. It is not even supporting auto closing of currly brackets 🙁
5. no mentioning any refactoring,
I will be honest here – I have never written support for any language as a plugin to any IDE but I can’t believe that this is so hard to do. JavaFX is more then a year on the market – and we still do not have useful plugin to eclipse 🙁
Best Regards
Michal Margiel