JavaFX links of the week, September 30

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 29, 2013 | Links

Well, JavaOne is over and people are returning back to their home countries, hopefully energised and excited about where Java is heading. For that reason the amount of news this week is understandably light, but nonetheless, let’s get into the news.

JavaOne

• You can watch the JavaOne Strategy Keynote, JavaOne Technical Keynote and JavaOne Community Keynote videos online now.
• Jasper Potts has posted a video of the chess robot demonstrated at JavaOne last week. The interesting thing about this chess robot is that it is running with a Raspberry Pi and the software is coded in Java.

JavaFX

• Hendrik Ebbers has posted slides and details from his talks at JavaOne (along with Claudine Zillmann and Johan Vos). Firstly, Claudine and Hendrik have a post about getting emoji’s into JavaFX applications. Secondly, Hendrik has posted the slides from his “Let’s get wet” talk that he and Claudine presented regarding their AquaFX skin and CSS research. Thirdly, Claudine and Hendrik announced Flatter, which is a new CSS style for JavaFX designed for touch screens and embedded devices. Finally, Johan Vos and Hendrik presented on DataFX, which is “the best way to get real-world data into your JavaFX application”.
• Michael Hoffer has published a YouTube video summarising his JavaOne tutorial on ‘Creating Amazing Scientific Visualization Tools with JavaFX 8‘. It’s a good (and long) video, and well worth watching.
• Jim Laskey has blogged about how to implement setInterval and setTimeout JavaFX functions in JavaScript so that they may be used from Nashorn.
• yWorks have announced yFiles for JavaFX, which is a (commercial) library that allows you to create JavaFX diagramming applications that use the full range of possibilities provided by the JavaFX framework.

Catch you all next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 23

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 22, 2013 | Links

JavaOne is underway! If you’re at the conference, have a great week, attend a bunch of sessions, but more importantly enjoy the hallway track. For those of you not at JavaOne, batten down the hatches if you’re on twitter and are trying to get work done this week! 🙂

• Jasper and Richard just presented in the JavaOne technical keynote, where they showed a custom-made tablet device called the DukePad. It is powered by a Raspberry Pi and featuring a touch screen, camera, HDMI output, GPIO pins, and more. It is powered with Java and has a custom-built JavaFX user interface.
• The Java Tutorials blog notes that JavaFX 8 Developer Preview Documents were published today on http://docs.oracle.com/javafx. They comprise Getting Started with JavaFX 3D Graphics, Adding HTML Content to JavaFX Applications, and Embedding Swing Content in JavaFX Applications.
• August Lammersdorf from InteractiveMesh has announced the first release of a COLLADA importer for JavaFX is now available. From the announcement, “the ModelBrowserJFX is correspondingly updated and enhanced with a tree and table based file system browser. It also provides an FXML export of the loaded scene graph.”
• Jeffrey Guenther has blogged about exploring the possibility of Graph Layouts in JavaFX.
• Robert Ladstätter has blogged about his continued work with JavaFX and OpenCV on his Color Extractor project. It’s also cool to see ControlsFX being used! 🙂
• Rob Terp has two blog posts this week. The first post is titled “Creating Custom JavaFX Components with Scene Builder and FXML“, and the second post is titled “Drag and Drop With Custom Components in JavaFX“.
• Tom Schindl has blogged about a memory leak in JavaFX 2.2, and has a link to the workaround used to avoid it.
• Chris Newland has posted about JITWatch, a Java HotSpot JIT Inspector written in JavaFX.
• Janice J. Heiss has published an interview with Johan Vos, regarding his plans for JavaOne, and his thoughts on topics such as social media, JavaFX and Java EE.
• Sven Ruppert has a blog post titled “CDI Callback<TableColumn, TableCell> cellFactory – from FXML“.
• Patrick Champion has written about JavaFX 8.0 and Lambda support.

Catch you all in a weeks time!

JavaFX links of the week, September 16

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 15, 2013 | Links

A heap of links this week, with a lot of talk about JavaOne that starts next week. It sounds like it is going to be a great conference, and I wish I could be there (but as noted previously there is a pretty valid reason why I won’t be). Anywho, enjoy the links, and for those going to JavaOne enjoy it – I’ll be following via Twitter and the blogosphere 🙂

• Java 7u40 was released this week, and along with that came a new release of JavaFX and Scene Builder. The JavaFX version was updated to 2.2.40, and Scene Builder was updated to 1.1. You can download Java / JavaFX and Scene Builder from the Oracle download site. The release notes for Java 7u40 and Scene Builder 1.1 are also available for your perusal.
• The Java Tutorials blog has a post titled “JavaFX 2.2.40 Documentation Introduces the New Deployment Features“.
• There is a video available on the GR8Conf Europe 2013 website of Dierk König presenting about enterprise desktop apps with GroovyFX and OpenDolphin.
• Adam Bien has been interviewed regarding his plans for JavaOne and his thoughts on JavaFX, etc.
• Christian Schudt has blogged about his DateAxis axis for the JavaFX charting library.
• ControlsFX 8.0.2 developer preview 2 was released this week, with a large list of improvements and bug fixes, including improved SpreadsheetView, improved Actions API, and icon font support.
• Hendrik Ebbers has blogged about the new DataFX Controller API (which will be talked about more at JavaOne next week).
• Carl Dea has blogged about a BOF he is involved in at JavaOne next week called “JavaFX, Widgets, and Apps, Oh My! Launching Frameworks for Platforms Large and Small“. If you are interested in this topic, this BOF is BOF2605 at JavaOne.
• Michael has blogged about his tutorial at JavaOne called “Creating Amazing Scientific Visualization Tools with JavaFX 8“. This is TUT6705 at JavaOne.
• Felix Bembrick has posted a JavaFX-based image pixelator (using lambdas).
• Andreas Billmann has two blog posts this week, where he details his GeoFroggerFX project (a geocaching application written in JavaFX). Firstly, he blogs about a video he has created showing GeoFroggerFX loading 11,334 caches with ease, and secondly he announces the second preview release of GeoFroggerFX.
• Andres Almiray has posted a Griffon plugin called dialogs-javafx, which has the goal to provide a set of reusable dialogs for JavaFX based applications.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has posted part two of his series on what’s new in Java 8. This post covers what might come in future releases, based on upcoming JavaOne talks.
• Sven Ruppert has three posts this week, titled ‘FullText – SearchBox for TableView Part I‘, ‘Where to find the cdi-commons and javafx modules?‘, and ‘11 lines of code for optimal col size (TableView)‘.

That’s a heap of links! 🙂 Keep up the great work, and again, to everyone attending JavaOne: enjoy, and be sure to tweet every detail 🙂