JavaFX links of the week, November 1

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 31, 2010 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week in the JavaFX world, which is understandable given that JavaFX 2.0 is in the works (and let me tell you, it’s starting to look good!). This week we have the following two posts of interest to the community:

• William Billingsley blogs about the perils of calling this.getClass() in JavaFX Script. My apologies to William for missing his blog last week, despite him emailing the link to me!
• Coming up on November 10 is Stephen Chin’s talk about JavaFX 2.0 with alternative languages. This is an extended talk based on the presentation he and I gave at JavaOne. His talk also will be covering the visage project. Don’t worry – I’ll remind you of this talk next week also.

That’s it for this week – I told you it was a quick post! 🙂

As always, feel free to drop me an email with links you think I should cover in a future post.

JavaFX links of the week, October 26

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 25, 2010 | Links

Welcome to another weeks JavaFX links. This week I have broken out the Visage links to a separate section. I hope you all find something useful in this weeks post.

JavaFX

• Jim Weaver has an article online (which was also published in Oracle Magazine) about customizing your application layout in JavaFX 1.3.1.
• Richa Singhal has blogged about ‘creating header and cell renderers in JavaFX‘, which makes use of the Swing JTable component.

Visage

• Jim Weaver has blogged about how the first compiler preview release of project visage. As a reminder, Visage is a fork of the JavaFX Script compiler (which has always been open source), with an aim to allow for the JavaFX Script DSL to live on and support JavaFX 2.0 APIs, as well as alternative UI toolkits.
• William Antonio has done a post to show off the first new feature of Visage – the ‘default’ keyword that has been introduced.

That’s it for another week. Catch you all in the weeks time! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 18

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 17, 2010 | Links

Welcome to another week of JavaFX links 🙂 This week we have the following interesting links:

• Coming up on November 10 is the next Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group talk, which is also broadcast in video live to those not in the Silicon Valley area. The November talk is Stephen Chin reprising the talk he and I gave at JavaOne on JavaFX 2.0 using alternative languages (for those unwilling to wait until November 10, you can find the slides we used on my blog). He will also be giving more details on project Visage, the fork of the JavaFX Script compiler to support the JavaFX Script language on JavaFX 2.0 and alternate GUI toolkits.
• Martin Ryzl has put up a screencast on how to use new data sources in JavaFX Composer in the NetBeans 6.10 M1 IDE.
• IBM DeveloperWorks has an article up on how to ‘use JavaFX to quickly create applications‘, with the subtitle of ‘JavaFX + Eclipse IDE = Easy GUI’
• Last week I mentioned that Kim Topley has released a new book about JavaFX 1.3. This week there is an excerpt from this book available at InformIT. It covers JavaFX effects and blends.

That’s us for another week – I hope you found one or two of them interesting. Catch you all in a weeks time.

JavaFX links of the week, October 11

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 10, 2010 | Links

Howdy. Todays post should really be titled ‘Java desktop links of the past three weeks’, but I’m sure you’re aware that I was overseas and unfortunately too busy to do a proper post. Regardless, during that time I was still collecting links as best I could, and have posted them below. Due to the sheer number of links, I have only included the links of most relevance. Apologies if your link wasn’t included (although I may have also genuinely missed it). As always, if you want a link included, it’s best to flick me an email and I’ll include it in the next weeks post if it’s suitable. Right, let’s get on with the links!

JavaFX 2.0

The big news at JavaOne for us was obviously the announcement of JavaFX 2.0. I’ve got a tonne of links below, and it’s well worth reading the comment sections of most blog posts for further discussion and clarification.

• Oracle has published a roadmap that discusses the plans for 2010 and 2011 for JavaFX 2.0. Stephen Chin summarised this on his blog.
• Richard Bair posted about JavaFX 2.0, and also Swing integration with JavaFX 2.0.
• Amy Fowler has written up a ‘heartfelt ramble on Swing & JavaFX‘
• Stephen Chin and I did a talk at JavaOne to show you early demos of what JavaFX 2.0 could look like in alternative languages (as well as Java).
• For those mourning the loss of JavaFX Script, the Visage project has been announced. This is basically a fork of the open source JavaFX Script compiler, which will be targeted to work on JavaFX 2.0 once the API becomes available.
• Alex Ruiz has covered one of the exciting reasons we’re moving back to Java: the availability of heaps of tools designed to support Java.
• A number of blog posts covered the topic of JavaFX 2.0, but to save space I’ll just mention the author of each one here. The blogs were written by Simon Morris, Osvaldo Doederlein, James Sugrue, Mitchell Pronschinske, Nick Apperley, Will Billingsley, Max Katz, and Johan Vos.

JavaFX 1.x

• Kim Topley has put out the JavaFX Developer’s Guide, which is now available from Amazon and other bookstores.
• Johan Vos presented a few sessions at JavaOne, and has put up the code for your edutainment.
• Speaking of Johan, here is an interview he did whilst at JavaOne about RedFX.
• Stephen Chin has posted the slides from his two other talks from JavaOne on his blog. These cover JFXtras and ‘Building Enterprise Applications with JavaFX’.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has just released Modellus 5 beta 1. The interesting thing about this application is that it combines Swing and JavaFX very nicely.

Well, there’s a tonne of links in there – hopefully you found something interesting or useful! Now that I’ve spent the last two hours reading and writing these links, it’s time to get to work 🙂 Catch you all in a weeks time, where things will return to normal.