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I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!

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JavaFX links of the week, February 15

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 14, 2010 | Links

A heap of JavaFX links this week. It’s great to see more and more chatter going on in twitter and other places related to JavaFX. It feels like people are becoming more excited about what is available now, and what is coming up in JavaFX 1.3. Here’s the links for the past week – I hope you enjoy them!

Lukas Hasik has noted that NetBeans 6.8 Patch 1 has been released. This release includes 36 fixes in the JavaFX area.
A new article was posted on JavaFX.com that discusses how to profile JavaFX applications using NetBeans.
In the Sun Developer Network, another article has appeared, titled ‘Java Applets, ASP.net – Can you play together?’. No prizes for guessing the topic of this post.
Jim Conners has posted a good article titled ‘JavaFX, Sockets and Threading: Lessons Learnt‘.
Thomas Butter emailed me to let me know of his project to display Open Document Presentation files in JavaFX. It’s only an early preview at the moment, but shows real promise.
Drew has a small update to his game project where he introduces a pause feature, and explains how he integrated it.
Pedro Duque Vieira has a post which shows off his integration of JavaFX and Swing into a single application.
Max Katz has a post showing off his work in using JavaFX as a visual display language for JSF pages.
Rakesh Menon has posted about the download service listener feature that was part of the Java 1.6.0_18 release. As he notes, “it allows you to provide a Custom Progress UI using AWT/Swing/Java2D APIs. It has callback methods which will provide information related to download and validation of resources.”
Jonathan Merritt posted about his experience in getting to know JavaFX, and his eventual realisation that JavaFX is very good.
Following my mention of the need for more Keyboard Cat JavaFX applications, Simon Morris (author of the JavaFX in Action book) obliged and posted another demo which will draw ripples over a video when you click the mouse.
kdgregory has a post discussing parts of the JavaFX language that he finds interesting.

That’s us for another week. Catch you all same bat time, same bat channel next week.

JavaFX links of the week, February 8

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 7, 2010 | Links

The main news out this week was the availability of a maintence release of JavaFX 1.2, taking the version number up to 1.2.3. Other than that, there have been a number of interesting posts by people exploring physics-based software and using ‘advanced’ features of JavaFX such as clipping. I hope you find these links useful, and as always please feel free to email me any links you think might be useful to include here.

JavaFX 1.2.3 was released this week. It’s a maintenance release only (which means there are no new toys to play with). This release had a focus on improving performance, reliability, and download time. Various bugs have been fixed as well.
Long time employee of Sun, and great advocate of both Swing and JavaFX, Josh Marinacci, has announced that he is moving on from Sun/Oracle, taking up a position at Palm.
Simon Morris has posted an interesting tutorial on how to do advanced clipping in JavaFX. Clipping is something that becomes useful once you understand how to use it, so I recommend finding time to read this article.
Drew from Piliq.com continues his exploration intophysics-based games. This week he posted progress in adding parallax scrolling and custom cursors, and also an entirely new demo game.
Speaking of physics games, Mikhail Gorshenev has posted a fun version of Tetris that spices up the original game by requiring you to simply have two or more blocks of the same colour touch. The kicker? The blocks now exhibit physical properties and fall accordingly.
Alex Ruiz has posted a new release of his FEST JavaFX Maven plugin, bumping the version to 1.0 alpha 1. This is a Maven plugin for compiling JavaFX source files.
Vyacheslav Baranov writes about the availability (or not, depending on which OS your software is running on) of Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) support in JavaFX 1.2.
Rakesh Menon has posted sample code to illustrate how to upload files using JavaFX.
Kon at Outrospective.org has posted an overview of the JavaFX 1.2 charting features.

That’s it for another week. Keep up the hard work people – it’s great to see the growing enthusiasm for JavaFX, especially on your blogs, and on twitter. By the way, the FX Experience team all have twitter accounts, as well as one for this website. You can find us at @fxexperience, and personally at @richardbair, @jasperpotts, and @jonathangiles.

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