JavaFX links of the week, August 30

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 29, 2010 | Links

A very quiet week in the land of the JavaFX. I put this partly down to the JavaOne effect – everyone is off working on their talks and not blogging as much – the same thing happened last year. As always, feel free to email me with any comments or suggestions you may have.

On with the news!

• With the release of his new book, Vladimir Vivien has also posted a JavaFX Cookbook website with a number of useful tutorials.
• Mayboroda Dmitiry has two posts this week. His first post discusses improvements to my multiple selection hack for ListView. His second post discusses creating pseudo classes in JavaFX, and builds a TabPanel control to demo it (with source code). I’m not sure what it is with TabPanel / TabView controls – we all seem to be building them 🙂
• William Antônio showed off his HttpRequester application which is essentially a GUI frontend for the JavaFX HttpRequest class.

That’s it for another week. Thanks for coming along and I hope something in the links list was helpful to you. Catch you all in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 23

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 22, 2010 | Links

Another week has started, so it must be time for another batch of JavaFX links. As per usual there are some very good links this week, so enjoy 🙂

• Srikanth Shenoy has released FxContainer 1.0, which is an IoC container written in JavaFX, for JavaFX applications. You can learn more about FxContainer as a PDF (or an embedded PDF if you prefer).
• Exadel have released the 1.3.5 release of their free JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse. The two major features of this release are ‘setting VM parameters for JavaFX application’ and ‘option to specify custom JNLP arguments’.
• Osvaldo Doederlein has continued his deep dive series of posts, this time covering ‘JDK 6u21, JavaFX 1.3.1 and Deployment‘.
• In another post, Exadel have announced that Exadel Flamingo now supports CDI and Bean Validation for JavaFX.
• William Antônio has blogged about an application he created to retrieve images from various web services, and to manipulate them locally.
• Yücel Ünlü has blogged about using code optimization software to reduce the size of JavaFX applications.
• Henrik Samuelsson has created a JavaFX application for people wanting to improve their poker skills.
• Richa Singhal has provided a JavaFX Marquee effect. Use with caution (because no one likes marquees 🙂 ).

That’s it for another week. Thanks to everyone for emailing links to include. I’ll catch you all again in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 16

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 15, 2010 | Links

Another week, another batch of JavaFX posts for you to check out. Enjoy! 🙂

• Eric Bruno has posted an article over at Dr Dobbs about building custom controls in JavaFX, in particular a ListView control that supports multiple selection. Remember that recently FX Experience also posted an example on how to create a multiple selection ListView.
• Martijn van de Rijdt has written about building a JavaFX project with Maven using javaFX 1.3 and the JFrog JavaFX Compiler Maven Plugin.
• itssmee has blogged about recreating Radioheads ‘House of Cards’ music video in JavaFX (the original video was created in Processing). For those unsure what is being referred to, check out this YouTube video.
• Sergey Malenkov has blogged about multi-threading in JavaFX, by recreating Reversi.
• Abhilshit Soni has posted ‘Yet another JavaFX App‘, which includes a runnable demo and source code.

That’s that for another week. I hope you all found something useful in the links today, and thanks to everyone for emailing their links to me. Catch you all in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 9

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 8, 2010 | Links

A very quiet week this week in terms of link quantity, but with new JavaFX and NetBeans releases it is made up for with some very important links to take note of this week. As always thanks to the people who take the time to email me their links.

• JavaFX 1.3.1 was released this week. It contains a lot of improvements and bug fixes, and is accompanied by an updated NetBeans release. The main feature of JavaFX 1.3.1 is an improved (and more configurable) startup experience.
• Danny Coward presented at Jazoon in June with an interesting talk titled ‘Java SE and JavaFX: The Road Ahead‘. It’s a good and informative talk, so if you’ve got an hour to spare the video is well worth watching.
• David Kaspar has written an article over at the NetBeans knowledge base about using NetBeans JavaFX Composer fragments to make building user interfaces easier (by spanning them over multiple files).
• I posted two screencasts for two controls I built in my spare time: TitledPane and Accordion.

That’s that for another week. Catch you all in a weeks time, and keep up the hard work folks 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 2

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 1, 2010 | Links

Howdy folks – not a huge number of links this week, but still there is a bit of good reading to be had. I hope you enjoy them 🙂

• Srikanth Shenoy has released FxObjects 0.1. FxObjects is a open source Enterprise JavaFX Application Development framework. The whole intention of the framework is to make Enterprise JavaFX application development easy, elegant and fast. There is a quick summary, and also a 50-page user guide PDF.
• Stuart Marks has blogged about ‘Missing Listeners and Local Overrides‘ in the JavaFX UI controls.
• Speaking of control listeners, Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged his event handling proposal.
• Patrick Champion has blogged about a RESTful client in JavaFX.
• One of the new features in the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse is support for ‘Organize Imports‘.
• Mark Anro Silva posted his JavaFX animation demo.
• I posted two screencasts related to my personal SplitView project. At this point it’s a very early proof of concept only.

That’s all for this week – I told you it was a quick post. Catch you in a weeks time.