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It’s Alive! OpenJFX is kicking off

by | Dec 1, 2011 | News | 5 comments

A very brief blog post to mention that just now the OpenJFX website and the openjfx-dev mailing list both appeared online. I’d recommend everyone interested in OpenJFX developments sign up for the mailing list.

Sometime soon the source code for UI Controls will appear in the mercurial repo. UI Controls are the first part of JavaFX to be open sourced, followed by the rest of the toolkit over the coming months. All development being done on UI controls will appear in this repo, as it happens. The source code that will appear shortly is based on the 2.1 release of JavaFX. This means that soon you will be able to build development snapshots of OpenJFX as it progresses towards each official release. This is exciting for me as it gives you early access to our APIs, allowing you to give us feedback (via our Jira tracker), which in turn allows for us to improve the API before it is released (and set in stone).

It is exciting times – I hope you all get involved! We have much more to discuss, but that can wait for another day.

5 Comments

  1. Christos on December 2, 2011 at 5:13 am

    By quickly recalling the dates and JDK releases on the Internet, one can see that Swing was introduced in late 1998 as part of JDK 1.2 with a limited set of components. We had to wait about 4 years in order to get a spinner component (JSpinner) in 2002 as part of JDK 1.4. Today, 13 years later, there’s still a calendar component missing along with many other useful components that we would love to have seen in core Swing. So, please, ensure we don’t wait 4 years to see a spinner component in JavaFX. By this I actually mean, please ensure you timely deliver a broad component set. You can get a good idea on this by looking into the excellent component support that the apache pivot team already offers (e.g. see in http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/). Many thanks and all the best for everyone in the JFX team. My expectations are high that in JavaFX we will see not only great, cutting-edge technology but through the right decisions also a commercially successful solution.

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  2. Justin Lee on December 2, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Unlike swing at the time, this is open source. So feel free to (help) contribute the items you feel are missing.

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  3. Tadashi Ohmura on December 3, 2011 at 8:07 am

    I feel that Java FX great.
    I have been using Swig for many years.
    Java FX is much better than Swing.

    Is Java FX open source ?
    Where can I get the source code ?

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  4. Tadashi Ohmura on December 20, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Thanks.

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