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.

JavaFX links of the week, October 18

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 18, 2015 | Links

‘Twas the week before JavaOne and not a developer was stirring 🙂 Well, almost – there are still some interesting links this week. For everyone going to JavaOne I wish you safe travels and I look forward to seeing you all in a weeks time. For those of you unable to attend – keep an eye out on the usual places for all the latest news. I’ll not be doing my post next week, but I will try my best to recap when I return to New Zealand after JavaOne.

• Better late than never, Jeff Friesen has just posted about JavaFX improvements in Java SE 8u40 (such as accessibility, dialogs, spinner, and formatted text input).
• Michael Heinrichs has open sourced his ?aj testing framework. ?aj “enables you to write expectations for your tests in a straightforward and simple way.”
• Hendrik Ebbers has posted a tutorial on how to build a JavaFX application using the Dolphin Platform project.
• Andres Almiray has announced that Basilisk 0.0.0 has been released. Basilisk is a fork of Griffon that also includes mobile support.
• I came across FXMaps on GitHub this week. It is a JavaFX Client API for Google Maps Services.

That’s all folks – see you on the other side of JavaOne.

JavaFX links of the week, October 12

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 11, 2015 | Links

Not long to go now until JavaOne! I’m really looking forward to heading over there again – it’s always nice to meet old and new friends. If you’re going to JavaOne be sure to come up and say hi! 🙂 There is a heap of interesting links this week – there is not the usual quiet period before JavaOne like in most years! Enjoy.

• There were a number of Gluon open source related posts this week. Firstly, there was the announcement of Gluon Ignite, an open source JavaFX dependency injection framework. Secondly, they announced the release schedules for Scene Builder and JavaFXPorts projects. Thirdly, they released Gluon JavaFX Mobile SDK 8.60.6 for Android and iOS. Fourthly, they also released Gluon JavaFX Embedded (ARM) SDK 8.60.6. Finally, there was an interesting blog post about writing native activities for Android / iOS using the open source Gluon Charm Down library.
• Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 0.0.18. As always this comes with a number of new features and bug fixes.
• Rob Terp has a small post about some useful tools that people who develop JavaFX software should be familiar with.
• Hendrik Ebbers continues to post about the Dolphin Platform project. This week he has posts on the model API and the view API.
• Andres Almiray has blogged about how the Griffon project has been forked to create the Basilisk project, which “aims to bring the Griffon experience to mobile/desktop application development”.
• A. Sundararajan has posted about building a standalone JavaFX FXML app with nashorn scripts for event handling – and no java code!
• Dirk Lemmermann has opened the online store for the CalendarFX project (it is also available on ComponentSource).

Catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, October 5

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 4, 2015 | Links

It’s only three weeks until JavaOne is in full swing (pun intended) – I hope those of you presenting are getting prepared. Myself? I’m getting there slowly… I can’t wait until JavaOne arrives – being a month later this year has set my excitement up a level it seems.

• Hendrik Ebbers has blogged a sneak peak at the Dolphin Platform – an open source project he is working on which will be shown in more detail at JavaOne.
• Gluon did two interesting posts this week. Firstly, they have developed an alternative JavaOne client for mobile devices. It is very nice looking! Secondly, they have released live templates for JavaFX properties for use in IntelliJ IDEA. Disclaimer: I’m an advisor at Gluon.
• Rob Terp did essentially exactly the same thing as the IntelliJ live templates for NetBeans – it can now autogenerate methods for JavaFX properties. Very nice!
• Aron Sreder has blogged about how to easily implement a JavaFX application preloader.
• Kamil Baczkowicz has released mqtt-spy 0.3.0.

JavaFX links of the week, September 28

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 27, 2015 | Links

Another week, another bunch of JavaFX links. Enjoy 🙂

• Tom Schindl has two posts this week. Firstly, an interesting read on JavaFX Code editors (specifically about scanner rules required to support eg Asciidoc), and secondly on major improvements to @Preference in e(fx)clipse 2.2.0, which looks very nice.
• I noticed two JEPs go past my twitter stream this week. Firstly, JEP 272 is titled ‘Platform-Specific Desktop Features‘. Secondly, JEP 275 is titled ‘Modular Java Application Packaging‘.
• Jens Deters has announced that MQTT.fx 0.0.17 has been released, with a few nice new features included.
• Dirk Lemmermann has published another of his interviews with companies building real-world JavaFX apps. This week he chats to the people building AISO HRC-Matic.
• Another post from Dirk Lemmermann announces that CalendarFX 1.0 has been released. This is a very nice, highly-polished (and commercial) library for JavaFX. If you need something like this in JavaFX – this is the best option available.
• Rob Terp has posted about binding a List of Strings to a JavaFX ListView.
• Jan Köhnlein has posted about diagram repair in FXDiagram.
• Gluon announced the release of Gluon Charm developer preview 4. This release adds a number of new features – very nice!

That’s all for another week.

JavaFX links of the week, September 21

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 20, 2015 | Links

More links for everyone to enjoy!

• If you are going to JavaOne this year and are a member of the Java desktop community,  you should sign up for my sixth annual Java Desktop Lunch! Space is running out and people who are not registered will not be able to attend. Get in quick.
• Dirk Lemmermann has another interview this week, this time with Mint Software Systems.
• Hendrik Ebbers has being playing around with layered images this week, creating some cool 3D effects influenced by the latest Apple TV UI designs. It is very neat, and I love the Star Wars surprise 🙂
• Tom Eugelink is posting his ‘JFXtras: lessons learned developing in JavaFX‘ slide deck online for all to read. Very useful!
• Steven Schwenke has posted material from a course he gave to his colleagues on JavaFX.
• Amrullah Syadzili has posted about how DetachableTabPane now supports docking and reordering.
• Gluon did a blog post about the release of the CharmListView control, which is a part of Gluon Charm. This control provides a more ‘mobile-friendly’ ListView API compared to the standard JavaFX ListView.

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