JavaFX links of the week, June 25

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 24, 2012 | Links

Welcome to another week of links. Enjoy! 🙂

• JavaFX 2.1.1 was released a few weeks back. This was a security release only. However, alongside this release was a few updates to the JavaFX documentation.
• You can watch a presentation given by Martin Gunnarsson and Pär Sikö on the topic “Get Dressed for Success – From Swing to JavaFX” that they presented at Oredev. These guys are great presenters, so the presentation is well worth watching.
• Filipe Portes has published a project on Github called ModuleFX, which “embeds the JavaFX Runtime inside an OSGI bundle, allowing you to create modular JavaFX apps with all the power of OSGI framework, getting the best of Java Rich Client and Modularization worlds together.”
• Jim Weaver has another article up, this week titled “Expressing the UI for Enterprise Applications with JavaFX 2.0 FXML“.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about the segmented controls in JFXtras.
• Adam Bien has put up a video of his LightFish project, which is a real-time JavaEE telemetry tool, with a client written in JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, June 18

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 17, 2012 | Links

Hi all – just a quick post this week as I am overflowing with real work! Enjoy 🙂

• Michael Heinrichs has blogged about using the JavaFX AnimationTimer API (which is far more relevant to you than the name implies!).
• Adam Bien has blogged about the enterprise side of JavaFX.
• Eric Bruno has an article up explaining how to use the TableView control in JavaFX 2.
• One of the big developments this week was the announcement of support for native packaging in the upcoming JavaFX 2.2. Following on from this, Richard Bair blogged about the plans for application deployment in JavaFX, including plans for application update support.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about the radial gauges in JFXtras Labs.
• Carl Dea has released part four of his JavaFX 2 game tutorial.
• The UGate blog has now got part two of the series on JavaFX programmatic POJO expression bindings.
• Sai Pradeep Dandem has blogged about the Scroller control he has developed.

Catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, June 11

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 10, 2012 | Links

Hi all – welcome to this weeks roundup. I hope you find something to enjoy! 🙂

• Developer preview releases of JavaFX 2.2 b11 and Scene Builder 1.0 b41 are now available for download.
• JFXtras for JavaFX 2.0 has finally arrived! The first release of JFXtras Labs (the incubator for JFXtras) has been made available. I interviewed four of the members of the JFXtras team recently too.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about one of the new components in JFXtras Labs 0.1: a LCD display.
• Tom Schindl has created a proof of concept of SWT running on top of JavaFX (in effect, it is the SWT API with JavaFX rendering).
• Following on from the release of Scenic View 1.0 last week, Scenic View 1.0.1 was released to improve performance in some situations, and to also fix a few bugs that were discovered after the release of 1.0.
• Michael Heinrichs has posted his for his talk ‘JavaFX for Business Application Developers‘.
• Speaking of business applications, Jim Weaver has posted part two of his series on best practices for JavaFX 2.0 enterprise applications (although we are well past 2.0 now!).
• Anton Epple has released a new NetBeans plugin that converts SVG images into FXML for use inside your JavaFX applications.
• Mohamed Sanaulla has posted about how the introduction of lambdas in Java 8 will impact JavaFX. Namely, the use of single abstract method interfaces for almost all interfaces in JavaFX allows for immediate use of closures in these situations, once Java 8 rolls around.

That’s us for another week! Catch you next week 🙂