JavaFX links of the week, November 30

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 29, 2015 | Links

Enjoy! 🙂

• Adam Bien has interviewed Peter Rogge about NetBeansIDE-AfterburnerFX-Plugin, a NetBeans IDE plugin which supports the afterburner.fx library.
• Andreas Billmann has created SmartCSV.fx, a “simple JavaFX application to load, save and edit a CSV file and provide a JSON configuration for columns to check the values in the columns.”
• Florian Brunner has announced the release of Drombler FX 0.7. Drombler FX is a modular application framework for JavaFX.
• Gluon has posted about embedding a database in your cross-platform / cross-device mobile Java projects.
• René Jahn has blogged about his research into mobile interfaces built with JavaFX.
• Christoph Keimel has posted about customising the e4 main window with e(fx)clipse.
• If you’re in or around the Zürich area, a new JavaFX meetup group has started for people interested in all things JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, November 23

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 22, 2015 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week – but I hope you enjoy nonetheless 🙂

• I finally got around to announcing ControlsFX 8.40.10 was available for download. This is yet another big step forward for the ControlsFX project, so thanks to all the contributors to it.
• An interview with Johan Vos was posted on YouTube recently, where he talks about JavaFX on mobile.
• Dirk Lemmermann posted the slides from his JavaOne talk titled ‘JavaFX Real-World Apps‘.
• Speaking of Dirk, he posted about ‘When to use JavaFX instead of HTML‘, and this was responded to by Shai Almog with his post ‘Should Oracle spring clean JavaFX?‘. I could talk at length about this topic, but all I’ll say is what I always say: no one knows the full extent of usage of JavaFX, and any claims to its success and failure are uninformed at best (and intentional FUD at worst). I’m in the fortunate position of having far more insight into what companies are doing than most and it amazes me what I see sometimes – the innovation and extent of work companies are doing is really inspiring. Therefore, I do suggest that people take some topics with a grain of salt, but I am presenting both sides for completeness.

JavaFX links of the week, November 16

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 15, 2015 | Links

Some great links this week – enjoy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmerman has two additional ‘JavaFX Real-World Apps’ posts that I missed during JavaOne. Firstly, ‘EIZO CuratOR Caliop‘, and secondly, ‘Emirates Airlines Network Capacity Optimization‘.
• Hendrik Ebbers has announced the release of ‘Dolphin Platform’. You can learn more about this project from the Dolphin Platform website.
• Speaking of the Dolphin Platform, Sven Reimers interviewed Michael Heinrichs and Hendrik Ebbers about this project recently whilst at Devoxx.
• Speaking of Devoxx, the Gluon blog has an overview of Gluon activities at Devoxx, including an hour-long presentation by Johan Vos, as well as a shorter interview with him.
• Speaking of Gluon, there is also a blog post from there about the recent RoboVM closed-sourcing of their library, and the implications of this on Gluon and the JavaFXPorts open source project.

JavaFX links of the week, November 9

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 8, 2015 | Links

JavaOne is over and it’s time to get back into work. The good news is that JavaOne 2016 is in mid-September, so only ~10 months away now! 🙂 Here are the links that come out over the last few weeks whilst I’ve been away at JavaOne. I’m sure I’ve missed some but feel free to email them to me and I’ll include them next week.

• Alexander Casall has started working on a FocusManager for JavaFX.
• Sven Ehrke has posted about his preferred way of building JavaFX applications using presentation state.
• James Nocentini has posted about ‘Getting Started with JavaFX and Couchbase Mobile‘.
• Pat Martin has announced the release of Dex 0.8. Dex “aims to bring sophisticated visualization capabilities without requiring a high degree of expertise in order to get professional results.”
• Gluon has three blog posts of relevance this week. Firstly, the announcement that it won a Dukes Choice award at JavaOne (and I do feature in the attached photo). Secondly, that Gluon is seeking skilled JavaFX / Java engineers to join the growing team. Thirdly, a post detailing the impact on Gluon from recent changes in the iOS ecosystem (i.e. changes in RoboVM licensing and ownership).
• René Jahn has posted about live css hacking (similar to what is available in Scenic View with CSSFX). There is also an overview post of some of the features of the JVx library (namely, the ability to code once and run on multiple devices).
• Peter Rogge has been working on the NetBeansIDE-AfterburnerFX-Plugin, which “is a NetBeans IDE plugin which supports the file generation in convention with the library afterburner.fx in a JavaFX project.”
• David Ray has open sourced his Mosaic layout container project.

Catch you all again next week.