JavaFX links of the week, October 27

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 26, 2014 | Links

Heaps of links – enjoy 🙂

• ControlsFX 8.20.8 was released this week, primarily as a bug fix release, but it also included a few nice new controls – so get downloading if you use ControlsFX in your project!
• Hendrik Ebbers and Johan Vos have announced the release of DataFX 8.0. For anyone doing anything remotely interesting with JavaFX, you should definitely check out DataFX.
• Speaking of Johan, he has put up the JavaFX Ensemble application, with unchanged code, into the Android Play Store, as a proof of concept of what is now possible based on his hard work.
• Hendrik Ebbers extreme gui makeover presentation from JavaOne is now available online at Parleys (along with a bunch of other sessions).
• Tom Schindl has pulled out the JavaFX / e(fx)clipse related sessions that are going to be presented at EclipseCon this year – in case you’ll be there.
• Florian Brunner has announced that Drombler FX 0.5 has been released. Drombler FX is a “modular Rich Client Platform for JavaFX based on OSGi and Maven (POM-first).”
• Carl Dea has open sourced the FX Playground project he demonstrated at JavaOne. As he puts it, FX Playground “allows a JavaFX or Html5 developer to run code on the fly without needing to compile a Java project.”
• Adam Bien has posted a video showing how to create a composite view in JavaFX with Scene Builder and dependency injection.
• Jim Laskey has posted part one of his series on ‘porting from the browser to Nashorn/JavaFX‘.
• The SnapCode blog has details about a new feature in SnapCode – interactive exercises.
• Sébastien Bordes has written tip #3 for the JRebirth library: how to never write ‘new Thread()’ again.
• Michael Simons has posted about ‘getting started with JavaFX 8: developing a REST client application from scratch‘.
• Carl has two posts this week. Firstly, tabbed navigation in Java FX, and secondly, the delegate pattern and JavaFX.

Catch you next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 20

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 19, 2014 | Links

A heap of links this week, enjoy! 🙂

• Sébastien Bordes has announced that JRebirth Application Framework 7.7.5 has been released.
• Dirk Lemmermann has contributed another control to ControlsFX (which will be part of ControlsFX 8.20.8 that will likely be released later today). It is called TaskProgressView, and does exactly that – show the progress of JavaFX tasks.
• Jens Deters has made two releases this week. Firstly, he has released MQTT.fx 0.0.10, which adds a very useful mqtt message clipboard. Secondly, he has released ShichimiFX, a JavaFX utils lib with some very useful utilities.
• Johan Vos and Lodgon have announced that they now offer JavaFX consulting and training.
• Andrea Almiray has posted a Q&A about his push for a new Java desktop application framework JSR.
• Carlos Martins has blogged about his ‘JavaFX Message Broker Client For The Rest Of Us‘ project.
• If you are interested in mapping controls, the ArcGIS Runtime provides a JavaFX map component for developers to integrate ArcGIS mapping capabilities into their JavaFX apps.
• Łukasz Śliwiński has posted about how he forked and updated JideFX to build against JavaFX 8u20.
• Alexander Casall has posted his slide deck for his talk “JavaFX – 10 things I love about you“.
• Jesus Luna Quiroga has posted a hack that allows for the text to be rotated in Tabs when they are positioned to the left / right of the TabPane.
• Carl (last name missing) has posted about building a custom JavaFX notification overlay.
• Markus Karg has a post titled ‘Good bye, Swing. Welcome, JavaFX 8‘, with some nice words said about JavaFX.

That’s all folks – back to work for me! Catch you next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the (past few) week(s), October 13

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 12, 2014 | Links

Sorry for the few weeks of radio silence – I had the JavaOne distraction followed by a week of catching up on everything that needed me during the JavaOne week. I’m only just surfacing again now, and there are a huge number of links to cover, so pardon the succinctness – we have a lot to get through! I’ll also note that I’ve bound to have missed some links, so apologies for that. Now, on to the links – enjoy 🙂

• Soon the JavaFX sessions will have their audio and slides posted to Parleys, but until then the slides are available for download from the JavaOne site – just search the content catalog. I’ll post my slides sometime along with further commentary about the session, but until then, you can find the slides for my sessions here: custom JavaFX controls, Scenic View, ControlsFX, and DataFX.
• During JavaOne I announced the release of two projects: Scenic View 8.0.0 and ControlsFX 8.20.7. These are both major releases with a bunch of new functionality and bug fixes, so get downloading!
• Johan Vos made a big splash at JavaOne this year. Firstly, he won a Dukes Choice award for his JavaFX port to Android. Secondly, he has an article up in Java Magazine that covers how to use this port to write a JavaFX application that runs on Android. Thirdly, it was announced at JavaOne that the JavaFX ports project will be working to make Java 8 (and therefore JavaFX 8) available on both Android and iOS devices. I’ll be posting an interview with Johan and Niklas in the coming week.
• Hendrik Ebbers has a bunch of blog posts, including on the topics of ‘JavaOne 2014 Slides‘, ‘Iconify your application the resolution independent way‘, ‘The View Objects Pattern & automated tests with TestFX‘, ‘How to integrate custom fonts in your JavaFX application by using CSS‘, and ‘Enrich your List UI by using the MediaListCell‘.
• Hendrik Ebbers has also posted the slides that he, Johan Vos, and I presented at JavaOne regarding the DataFX project.
• Tomas Mikula has created another JavaFX-related library, this time called WellBehavedFX, which consists of ‘composable event handlers and skin scaffolding for JavaFX controls’.
• Tom Schindl has a post about e4 on JavaFX and OpenDolphin.
• Rob Terpilowski has posted a few screenshots and a video of the Zoi Capital ZQ Trader software written in JavaFX.
• Sébastien Bordes has announced the release of JRebirth Application Framework 7.7.4.
• Dirk Lemmermann has been very busy with his (commercial) FlexGanttFX library. Firstly, he has published it for sale on ComponentSource (as he states, for those unfamiliar with ComponentSource, it is an international reseller of software components, basically the “App Store” of custom controls). Secondly, he has released version 1.1.0 which includes a number of new features and bug fixes. Thirdly, he has been working hard on writing high quality documentation for the control.
• Andres Almiray has posted that “It’s time for a Desktop Application Framework JSR“. If you are interested in being involved, be sure to get in touch with him.
• The dooApp blog has two posts. Firstly, they’ve posted details about how they’ve created a sampler application based on the ControlsFX FXSampler component. Secondly, they have a post on ‘JavaFX persistence made easy with JCROMfx‘.
• Carlos Martins has posted about how to developed a JavaFX websocket client application that is deployed via Webstart JNLP.
• Christian Schudt has posted about Babbler – an XMPP library for Java – and more specifically, a visual XMPP viewer coming in the next release.
• Mik Arber has created a new JavaFX layout container he calls RefPoint. He states in the post that “it’s principal is simple as you define one node position or two points node relatively to some reference points.”

Phew! That took a while to write out! I hope you enjoyed the links from the past few weeks – and I’ll catch you again next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 22

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 21, 2014 | Links

It’s one week until JavaOne kicks off – I can’t wait to get over there and to catch up with a bunch of you. This week there are a bunch of good links too, so enjoy! 🙂

• I continue to interview people about their JavaOne plan. In the past week this consisted of Hendrik Ebbers and Sean Phillips.
• Hendrik followed his interview up with a blog post giving more sneak peaks into what he will be presenting next week.
• Tom Schindl has posted about ‘visualising your DSL’: ‘building 3d Lego models with Xtext and JavaFX‘. He follows this up with another post titled ‘Having fun with Lego & JavaFX 3d‘ – I have to agree, the squeaky door in the last video is pretty cool 🙂
• Jens Deters has announced the release of FontAwesomeFX 8.0.10, which includes stacked icons support, as well as FXML support. Very nice! 🙂
• I realised earlier this week that I’ve never mentioned that I have created (and maintain) a fork of the JavaFX dialogs API that is coming up in JavaFX 8u40. This project is called openjfx-dialogs and is as close to being a 1:1 fork from OpenJFX as possible (the only exceptions are minor). It works in 8u20 and so is available for people wanting to use the official API before it releases in 8u40 to test and give feedback – I occasionally update the fork to bring in the latest code and bug fixes. Also, it is used by ControlsFX as the underlying implementation of its new dialogs (the old dialogs API was recently deprecated).
• Sébastien Bordes has announced that JRebirth Application Framework 7.7.3 has been released.
• Geertjan Wielenga has posted an overview of the newly published book titled ‘JavaFX Rich Client Programming on the NetBeans Platform‘. In addition, he has an interview with its two authors, Paul and Gail Anderson.

That’s all folks. If everything goes to plan, the next post will be done from San Francisco sometime around the start of JavaOne. For those that are attending – safe travels and I look forward to seeing you there. For those that are not, follow along on twitter 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 15

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 14, 2014 | Links

Two weeks until JavaOne – now I’m starting to get excited (and also overwhelmed by how much preparation I still have to do!). On with the links! 🙂

JavaFX

• Danno Ferrin has announced the release of version 8.1 of the Maven JavaFX Plugin.
• Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 0.0.9.
• Vinumeris has announced that an alpha version of Lighthouse is now open source. Lighthouse is a “decentralised, peer to peer crowdfunding application that uses the smart contracts features of the Bitcoin protocol. It lets you create projects and pledge to those projects.” They have also announced the open sourcing of UpdateFX, which is a “small, simple automatic online update framework for JavaFX applications.”
• I published another JavaOne interview, this time with Johan Vos.
• I posted a quick book review of the Mastering JavaFX 8 Controls book that was recently published.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted about another ‘Friday Fun Component’ he has built: a ‘minimal clock‘.
• Canoo staff have posted video summaries of what they will be presenting at JavaOne, including Dierk Koenig, Michael Heinrichs, and Hendrik Ebbers.
• With JavaOne now less than two weeks away, people are continuing to post on their sessions, as well as sessions they are looking forward to. Some links I’ve found include: Hendrik Ebbers talking about his sessions (it’s a different video than above), Hendrik Ebbers giving a sneak peak at his ‘Enterprise JavaFX’ session demonstration, and Michael Hoffer has a post summarising his sessions.
• This week I came across FXDesktopSearch, a desktop search application written in Java / JavaFX.

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, September 8

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 7, 2014 | Links

Not long now until JavaOne, so I hope everyone that is presenting is getting things sorted out! 🙂 Here’s the weeks links – enjoy! 🙂

• Johan Vos has written about building and deploying Android apps using JavaFX. He also has written about the sessions he is presenting at JavaOne, including a session on JavaFX on Android.
• Dirk Lemmermann has announced the 1.0.0 release of his (commercial) FlexGantt library.
• Rob Terp has a post titled “Animations with JavaFX: So Easy a Chimp Can Do It“.
• I continue to post interviews with members of the JavaFX community, this week interviewing David Grieve and Carl Dea.
• Niels Gundermann continues to work on his JavaFX 3D Editor project, releasing update 11 as well as a blog post detailing how to create new painting tools.

That’s all for this week. Catch you again next week!