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Great post on layout by Amy Fowler, recommended reading for anyone interested in JavaFX 2.0.
JavaFX2.0 Beta is out. We’ve taken advantage of the language shift to extensively remodel the layout APIs based on a year’s worth of tire-kicking. This article (the first in a series) will introduce you to the basics. ….More
Something that you see more and more with client applications at the moment is embedded map components. This blog will show you how to embed Google, Yahoo or Bing maps in your JavaFX application.
Google Maps in JavaFX 2.0
Download a copy of the application and try it out. The jar file is linked below, just download it and double click. This requires you to have the JavaFX 2.0 beta runtime installed.
We did a complete rewrite of charts in JavaFX 2.0 to add cool features like:
There is a sample application called “Chart Sampler” that ships with JavaFX 2.0 Beta that shows some of what can be done with the new charts. Here are a few screen shots to tempt you to go and check it out 🙂
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Here is a little sample to show you how to create 3D content in JavaFX 2.0. More complex and fun examples will be coming in the future.
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The video of JavaFX demo shown in the Java One Keynote is now live for viewing on Oracle Media Network.
Click Me to watch on Oracle Media Network
We had a great time making the demo, I wish to thank Alexander Kouznetsov, Angela Caicedo and Joe Andresen for their help and many late nights working on the demos with me. Nandini Ramani for all her support and letting us steal her office for the week before as a demo war room (hope it doesn’t smell of pizza and coffee any more). We also need to say a huge thank you to Intel who came though at the last minute and provided us two very nice computers to run the demo on, if only they let me keep one 😉
We were only using one no crazy SLI thing going on, the other was backup just in case.
Alexander and Joe back stage last minute coding, No I meant testing ;-).
Some of the crazy amount of tech back stage.
The keynote room just before doors open.
Joe Andresen, Angela Caicedo, Nandini Ramani and myself (Jasper Potts) on stage just before.
The demo being shown up on the big stage.
Hope you enjoyed the back stage sneak peek, you can see more photos on my flickr.
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