JavaFX links of the week, October 30

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 29, 2017 | Links

Due to excessive levels of travel in the past week, I was unable to pull together the links for last week. I have tried to keep track of the links as best as I could, but I apologise if I miss any today. Please, let me know and I’ll be sure to post them next week.

• Gerrit Grunwald remains as productive as ever: he released an updated TilesFX, he blogged about creating a simple countdown timer, he created a library containing JavaFX-like properties without the bindings / dependencies on JavaFX (useful for example if you want to build Android apps but love the JavaFX API), and he recreated the GitHub commit ‘heatmap’ control in JavaFX.
• Dirk Lemmermann open sourced CalendarFX, his Java framework for creating sophisticated calendar views based on JavaFX.
• Markus Falkhausen has updated his class diagrams for JavaFX to include JavaFX 9.
• William Antônio Siqueira has blogged about JavaFX with Bean Validation and CDI 2.0.
• CheerpJ beta 2 was released this week. CheerpJ is a (commercial) compiler that converts Java applications to browser-based web applications.

JavaFX links of the week, October 16

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 15, 2017 | Links

Sorry about the lack of links last week. With everyone returning from JavaOne there wasn’t a great deal of news, so I decided to carry it over a week. But, here we go – enjoy 🙂

• I was very pleased to share the news that ControlsFX won a Dukes Choice award at JavaOne.
• Gerrit Grunwald has returned to the land of UIs 🙂 and has a blog post about another of his ‘Friday Fun’ components. Gerrit has also updated his TilesFX dashboard project, and posted a video of the current offering – it’s very nice.
• Mario Ivankovits has posted a build of Java 9 with JavaFX for Raspberry Pi.
• Renato Athaydes has two things this week: firstly, a post on ‘Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application.’ He also has updated LogFX, a “simple log reader supporting color highlighting and able to handle giant files”.
• I came across AgroSense this past week – an “open source farm managament and precision agriculture solution” written with JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, October 2

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 1, 2017 | Links

• The big news in the last week is the release of Java 9, and with it updates to JavaFX. This is, of course, a major release which brings with it a lot of changes, mostly around modularity, but there is a huge amount of engineering effort in many less visible areas. I recommend all developers start exploring Java 9 as time permits.
• With Java 9 out, the libraries we use all need to make the necessary changes to work under the Java 9. This week there have been a huge number of tweets and release announcements of updated versions of various libraries to support Java 9. Libraries in the Java desktop area that have announced Java 9 support include ControlsFX and FontAwesomeFX.
• As well as libraries, Gluon has released an updated Scene Builder, for both Java 8 and Java 9.
• Jens Deters has released a fix for MQTT.fx for a bug only present for users of MacOS High Sierra.
• Thomas Nield has updated RxJavaFX with a minor release to tweak an API.
• Gerrit Grunwald has returned to his tilesfx dashboard library, fixing some issues.
• Andres Almiray has posted about defining custom behaviour in FXML with FXMLLoader.