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JavaFX links of the week, March 21

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 20, 2011 | Links

Here we go again, with another batch of JavaFX 2.0 related links of the week. I hope you enjoy them 🙂

Richard Bair was recently interviewed by InfoQ regarding JavaFX 2.0.
Geertjan Wielenga blogged about the potential usefulness of the JavaFX WebView component. This is a part of JavaFX 2.0 – a fully fledged web browser component that can be embedded in your JavaFX applications. Also, because JavaFX 2.0 supports being embedded inside Swing applications, you can also use the WebView in Swing.
Tom Eugelink has ported the MiGLayout layout manager to JavaFX 2.0 EA. For people who love building user interfaces with MiGLayout, it looks like your prayers have been answered. Interestingly, there is very little code to this layout, considering the powerful layout functionality it exposes.
Aljoscha Rittner has created a screen capture tool written in JavaFX 2.0 with only 200 lines of code and a very quick startup time. Once the dependency on the AWT Robot class is removed, it is likely that this will become even quicker.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to blog about their thoughts, experiences, and progress with JavaFX 2.0. I love reading it and love sharing it with the community – keep up the great work!

JavaFX links of the week, March 7

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 6, 2011 | Links

It’s March already?! It seems time is flying past these days, yet there is never enough time in the day to get everything done. For those of you too busy to scour the web for Java desktop links then, I hope I can be of some help! 🙂 This week we have some blog posts on what people are finding out about JavaFX 2.0. As always, feel free to email me any links you may have!

Alan O’Leary blogged about the WebView component in JavaFX 2.0 EA, and integrating it within a Swing application. This has long been a request of developers in the Swing world – and so this may be a viable option for many projects.
Following up on this, Aljoscha Rittner blogged about integrating JavaFX 2.0 EA with the NetBeans Platform to get the best of both worlds. His example embeds the WebView inside a NetBeans-based application. I wish I’d see someone take the time to create a fully JavaFX-based application framework 🙂
Steven Herod, author of the TwitterFX application, has blogged about his first impressions of JavaFX 2.0 EA. He has spent the last few weeks working on a new JavaFX 2.0-based TwitterFX client, and seems impressed by what is coming in JavaFX 2.0.
I picked up on an example Adam Bien gave of TableView, slightly tweaking it to show an alternative means of populating the cells of the TableView.

That’s us for another week!

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