JavaFX links of the week, September 30

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 30, 2012 | Links

Hi all, and welcome to another JavaFX links post. This week we have a special guest editor (because I’m at JavaOne this week). I’ll leave him to introduce himself – enjoy the links folks! 🙂

Hi. I’m Josh Marinacci, former member of the JavaFX team. Jonathan Giles and the rest of the JavaFX crew are insanely busy preparing for JavaOne, so I’ll be your editor for this week’s links. If you are attending JavaOne this year be sure to see some of the stellar JavaFX talks.

• JavaFX Scenic View 1.2.0 is released! It’s got a ton of new features including event monitoring, javadoc browsing, and my personal favorite ‘context menus’. I have to say, Scenic View is really starting to look quite nice.
• Pixel Duke blogs how to zoom the contents of a scrollpane.
• Geertjan has photos of him rotating a JavaFX chart and a Steel Series component using a Tinkerforge device. Very cool!
• Jose Pereda shows how to get JavaFX running on the WeTab tablet.
• From 10/29 to 11/11 Stephen Chin will be cycling across Europe on The NightHacking Tour, The Road to Devoxx. Along the way he will be stopping at many user groups and hacking spots. To be a part of the events you can join him in person or watch the live streams.
• Daniel Marell shows how to build JavaFX projects with Maven
• Nice screenshots of MINT Software Systems newest release of their Training Management System, written in JavaFX. Very nice use of the JavaFX charting library.
• Oscar Lantz shows how to code a very nice analog clock in JavaFX
• JavaFX GUI released in Japanese
• Angry Nerds in JavaFX
• William blogs how to show object properties in a table view with JavaFX
• The video version of JavaFX and Scala in the Cloud presented by Stephen Chin and Andrew Phillips at JAXConf.
• E(fx)clipse 0.1.1 is released
• Patrick Champion pulls together his previous blogs on custom components with FXML and a JAX-RS 2.0 client into a single JavaFX app to consume REST services.
• An explanation of the JavaFX packaging tools changes in JDK 7 update 10.

Thanks to Josh for the help this week, it was much appreciated.

JavaFX links of the week, September 24

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 23, 2012 | Links

Hi folks – and welcome to yet another JavaFX links of the week. As per usual I’ve got a selection of interesting and informative posts for you to peruse this week, and I hope you all enjoy!

Whilst I’m writing this I realise that, rather obviously, we’re a week out from JavaOne in San Francisco. I will be there, and of course look I’m really looking forward to catching up with plenty of you. However, the flipside of this is that I will be traveling for the next two weeks, and unless someone wants to step up and be the guest editor for the next two weeks (email me for details), things may be a little quiet around here so now I have a guest editor filling in for me. You’ll find out who it is next week! I will try my best to get some posts out covering all the news, but don’t hold me to it! Anywho – on with the links! 🙂

• Gerrit Grunwald and I both blogged about how, given our JavaOne sessions cover exactly the same content, we’ve decided to shuffle the content a little, to make things more useful to you, the audience of our talks.
• Speaking of Gerrit, he has blogged over at the Canoo RIA blog, about taking care of the JavaFX scenegraph (i.e. options for rendering inside the scenegraph, in particular, node-based vs canvas-based).
• Benjamin Jung has started working on an ‘fx-guice‘ project that aims to provide ‘Google Guice integration for FXML-based JavaFX 2 applications’.
• Rob Terpilowski has blogged about adding JavaFX components built with Scene Builder / FXML to a NetBeans RCP application.
• Laurent Nicolas has created a JavaFX radial menu.
• Narayan Maharjan has two posts this week. Firstly, he talks about his JavaFX ‘live view’ functionality, that is, taking a screenshot of the users desktop windows, etc (note that this uses AWT / Java2D API). Secondly, he has a post talking about his ‘Feather Edit‘ project, which makes use of his live view functionality to take screenshots of playing movies.
• Mark Anro Silva has created the classic ‘connect four’ game in JavaFX.
• The Excelsior JET folks have announced (to their surprise) that Excelsior JET already works with JavaFX 2 based applications.
• The Oracle Technical Network website has a short whitepaper up on a JavaFX user: Celer Technologies.
• Andres Almiray was interviewed on the Grails Podcast about Griffon.

That’s all for this week. Once again, I look forward to catching up with as many of you as possible at JavaOne. Please come up and say hello – it’ll make my day 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 17

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 16, 2012 | Links

Hi all and welcome to another weeks worth of JavaFX links! 🙂 It isn’t long until JavaOne comes around again, so everyone is in the traditional quiet phase whilst they work on their JavaOne talks. I’m sure it’ll be another great conference this year (and I can’t wait to see a bunch of you there!). Anyway, on with the news!

• The Java Spotlight Podcast interviewed a fellow member of the JavaFX team, Daniel Blaukopf. He is the Embedded Java Client Architect at Oracle, working on JavaFX embedded functionality.
• Speaking of JavaOne, there is a NetBeans community day happening on the Sunday. There will be plenty of talk about JavaFX, so I’ll be there. Geertjan Wielenga has written more about it at DZone.
• Also related to JavaOne, if you’re going and you’re a fan of Java desktop related topics, you might want to join Stephen Chin and I, along with a number of people from Oracle and the community, as well as one very special guest, at the fourth annual Java desktop lunch. If you’re interested, please register and we’ll be in touch.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues to develop his Steel Series gauges as part of the JFXtras project. This week he has blogged about a new simple gauge he has written, how easy it is to add touch support to his gauges, and finally a D/A clock based on a real-world clock.
• Danno Ferrin has blogged about how to style your custom UI controls.
• Part two of Jim Weaver’s ‘Expressing the UI for Enterprise Applications with JavaFX 2.0 FXML‘ series is now available on OTN.
• Jim Gough also has three posts this week, firstly he blogs about improving animation performance if there are a number of nodes animating independently, secondly he has a review of the Pro JavaFX 2 book, and thirdly about cleanly closing FXML-based applications.
• José Pereda has blogged about developing a JavaFX-based weekly scheduler. This is actually a control I’d like to see developed – a proper calendar control with support for filling in your appointments, etc (so like what  you have in Google Calendar or MigCalendar basically).
• A new blog I discovered recently has a bunch of posts on JavaFX, all written by someone going by the name NotZed. Posts include topics on writing a JavaFX slideshow app, creating a video cube, creating an ‘infinite drawing canvas‘, and finally he creates a smooth video list.

That’s all for this week – catch you all next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 10

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 9, 2012 | Links

Hi all! Sorry for the delay in this weeks post – I’ve been snowed under with work (as per usual it seems!). Please pardon the brevity this week 🙂

• Richard Bair posted some performance numbers based on our work on JavaFX 8.0 performance. A large number of JavaFX team members have been solely focusing on performance for JavaFX 8.0, and we have some very pleasing numbers to show for it.
  
• Mark Heckler has done another post on his DialogFX project.
• Danno Ferrin has blogged about JavaFX, Groovy and Griffon, which talks about the newly-updated JavaFX plugin for Griffon.
• Carl Dea has updated the examples for his ‘Introduction to JavaFX 2’ book to work better with JavaFX 2.2.
• Andy Till has blogged about reusable FXML controls using Google Guice.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has posted on minimalistic styling for JavaFX Stages.
• Wichit Sombat has posted an applet that is a simple particle system written in JavaFX 2.2 (presumably using the new Canvas API).
• Among many others, I would like to say that I will definitely be at Devoxx this year, giving three talks. I’m looking forward to it!

Catch you all next week!