Here we go, yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. There are quite a few interesting links this week – so tuck in and enjoy!

• This week JavaFX 2.0 beta b42 was released. We’re nearing the general availability release of JavaFX 2.0, so the APIs and functionality are pretty much set in stone now (which means now might be a good time to start exploring JavaFX 2.0 further, as you’re less likely to be burnt by the API changes that have been occurring for the last few months).
• The JavaFX documentation team have blogged about some of the notable API changes that occurred in JavaFX 2.0 b42.
• With the latest JavaFX 2.0 beta release, a number of projects have put out new releases to work against the latest APIs. These include Tom Eugelink has once again updated his popular MigPane project, Jim Clarke and Dean Iverson with GroovyFX, and Bertrand Goetzmann with Grezi.
• Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.4, which includes a number of new features around CSS and packaging of apps.
• Gerrit Grunwald has released a tool that parses Adobe fxg files and returns JavaFX Groups for each layer of the fxg file.
• Jojorabbit4 has put up part two of his JavaFX 2.0 CSS Styling guide.
• Another presentation of the ‘JavaFX in Alternate Languages‘ talk has come online, this time with Stephen Chin presenting on Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage, at the Jazoon conference.
• Laurent Nicolas has posted an upgrade to his JavaFx 2.0 Presenter application that now take into account Node rotation and scale.

That’ll do for another week I think. Catch you all in a weeks time. Keep up the hard work folks!

A heap of interesting links this week, so I hope there is something of interest in the links below for you! As always, feel free to email me your links if you think they are worth sharing to everyone else. Let’s get into things!

• The JavaFX 2.0 beta builds keep on rolling off the production line. This week we have build 40 ready to be tested. From my point of view, the most exciting thing about this release is the performance improvements we’re starting to get into releases. Our specialised performance team are finding memory leaks and CPU hogs, and the engineers are doing their best to get things as performant as possible. In particular, b40 includes a heap of performance improvements to CSS and controls performance. Of course, there are plenty of bug fixes, and the general polishing that is expected of a relatively late-stage beta release. As always, my plea remains: please get it onto your machine and give it a good thrashing. Bug reports and complaints are highly appreciated!
• Dean Iverson has been busy posting two screencasts about building GroovyFX applications on to his blog. The first screencast is about how to get started with Griffon, GroovyFX, and JavaFX. The second screencast is concluding the basic introduction, introducing features such as binding, automatically generating properties, and keeping your JavaFX user interfaces as succinct as possible using the power of Groovy.
• We posted an updated ‘Introducing FXML‘ document. This should hopefully answer some of the questions you have.
• If the technical documentation above isn’t enough, there is also a ‘Getting started with FXML‘ article on the Oracle JavaFX website. This article works through the process of building a simple, example application and gives a good overview of how to work with FXML.
• And if that documentation isn’t enough, the JavaFX documentation team at Oracle have just posted a blog about all the new and updated documentation that recently got pushed online. They’re doing an excellent job making sure there is a lot of high-quality documentation about JavaFX 2.0, and my hats are off to them, knowing how much the engineers have increased their workload by changing APIs over the last few months.
• Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.3, which includes CSS validation improvements for customising the look of your applications.

Have a great week everyone

I know I sound like a broken record…but where does time go?! It’s mid-August already! This past week was a relatively quiet one in the JavaFX world, but despite being quiet there are some very interesting links this week. Let’s get into it

• Dean Iverson has finally blogged about the work he and Jim Clarke are doing on GroovyFX. This is a good read for anyone interested in building JavaFX 2.0 user interfaces without all the verbosity of Java.
• Tom Eugelink put out a new release of MigLayoutFX2 to fix some bugs, and also announced a name change to MigPane to be more consistent with the naming pattern used within JavaFX.
• Narayan has released the source code for his AutoFill TextBox. He has blogged about this previously.

That’s all for this week – I hope you found a few links useful! Catch you next week with more JavaFX links

Welcome to another week of desktop links. This week there are a number of links, so hopefully there might be some that are of interest to you! Let’s get right in to it

• JavaFX 2.0 beta build 38 came out last week. This release was primarily a bug fix, performance tweak and API clean-up release, although it did also include the JavaFX 2.0 Beta Packager Tool.
• Here on FX Experience I reposted an internal introduction to FXML document. This post introduces FXML to quite some depth. FXML is the scriptable, XML-based markup language for constructing Java object graphs, and in particular is designed for building JavaFX user interfaces.
• Per Bothner has blogged about JavaFX 2.0 applications written in Kawa. His first post is an introduction, with the second post showing how Kawa would handle JavaFX animations.
• Tom Eugelink has put out a new release of MigLayoutFX2 to get it working with the latest JavaFX 2.0 beta builds.
• Patrick Champion has posted a very simple example using FXML.
• Niklas Hofmann posted about an ImageView Node he wrote for JavaFX that handles SVG images. Note that it requires Apache Batik.

Catch you all in a weeks time

Another month down, leaving only two months until JavaOne 2011. Of course, the big news last week was the release of Java 7. Besides that, there are some good links this week (as always!), so let’s get into the rest of this weeks links

• JavaFX 2.0 beta b37 was released, to enable developers another weeks worth of access to FXML, the XML-based markup language for (optionally) creating JavaFX user interfaces. It’s optional because you are by no means forced to build UIs in FXML – you can continue to freely use Java, or indeed, any JVM-based language. It’s just another option for those of you that like using XML for UI layout, and certainly it is a great format for tooling support and UI interchange.
• GroovyFX continues to flourish with improved support for JavaFX 2.0 and improved GroovyFX documentation. I have to wonder, are any other JVM-based languages doing similar? Get in touch with me if  you are working on something!
• There is a brief video on YouTube with Jim Weaver presenting about ‘JavaFX in the real world‘. Of note is that Jim makes use of Grezi in his presentation, which I have linked to in previous weeks.
• At OSCON/Java, Jim Weaver promised to make available the source code for his EarthCubeFX application, which is a port of his original EarthCube application from JavaFX 1.3 to use the latest 2.0 beta builds. You’ll also note that he has a YouTube video which demonstrates EarthCubeFX running on Mac OS X.
• Jonathan (not me) has blogged over at The Java Tutorials’ Weblog about the top five docs to introduce yourself to JavaFX 2.0.

That’s all folks! I hope you found something useful in the links above, and as always: keep up the great work, blog about what your discovering, and feel free to contact me with any links of interest! Catch you all in a weeks time

Here we go again – yet another intro to a blog post series that hasn’t changed much at all in the years it has been running (both here and on my personal blog)! For that reason, let’s just jump into the links (which, lets admit it, is the real reason you’re here). Enjoy!

• JavaFX 2.0 beta build 36 was released this week, including some new features like worker threading, rich text editing (via the HTMLEditor control), and a file chooser dialog, among many bug fixes and optimisations.
  
• Michael Heinrichs, an engineer in the JavaFX team at Oracle, has blogged about upcoming changes to the properties API.
• Parleys.com has put up the video from Devoxx 2010 titled ‘Physically Attractive‘, which consists of Richard Bair and Jasper Potts talking about physics in the JavaFX scenegraph, 2D/3D graphics, and “bullets, bombs, explosions and inflicting damage”.
• James Weaver published an article on using transitions for animation in JavaFX.
• Patrick Champion blogged about how he created a Duke animation in JavaFX using the latest beta build.

Also, I thought I’d link to the JavaOne conference sessions, which are now published online. For those mostly interested in JavaFX, you might want to refine the search criteria to the Java SE track. Additionally, a tutorial has appeared online recently that details MigLayout. Despite being most commonly used in the Swing world, it has been adapted to numerous other UI toolkits, including SWT and JavaFX. The JavaFX version is available online (but I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that the JavaFX SDK comes with the GridPane layout, which may meet your needs).

Keep up all the hard work folks. Catch you all next week.

A relatively quiet week in the world of JavaFX, but hopefully you can find a link or two of interest! Let’s jump into them…

• I interviewed Jim Clarke and Dean Iverson here on FX Experience. These two are the developers behind the GroovyFX project, and give a good insight into what GroovyFX offers over-and-above programming with JavaFX 2.0 in Java.
• jojorabbit4 has put up part one of his series on JavaFX 2.0 CSS styling. This is a long and detailed read – well worth doing if you want to alter the looks of your JavaFX applications.
• Two few weeks ago I linked to a video of a zoomable user interface written in JavaFX. This week Bertrand Goetzmann has opened up the source code on his Grezi project. Of note is that Grezi is built using GroovyFX, and is already being used by people for public presentations.

That’s that for another week. As always, feel free to email me links you want included – I appreciate the hints you all give me! Anywho, catch you all again in a weeks time

Welcome to another week of JavaFX links! Let’s get right into it.

• There was a new beta build of JavaFX 2.0 put out this week – b34 includes drag and drop support, as well as a Java to JavaScript bridge for WebView among the numerous bug fixes, API tweaks and performance improvements.
• The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group is planning another meeting this week, but I’m not sure what the topic is. It is on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00 PM at the Oracle Conference Center.
• Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.2, which includes improved CSS editing support, as well as the start of better JavaFX integration into Eclipse in the form of JavaFX library specification in projects, a ‘New JavaFX Project’ wizard and JavaDoc integration.
• jojorabbit4 has updated his ComboBox control to allow for more customisation.
• Narayan Gopal Maharjan has put up a AutoFill TextBox with support for as-you-type filtering and auto-complete.
• The GroovyFX project is continuing to get noticed – this week hideaki-t put up a custom browser using GroovyFX to demonstrate the power of GroovyFX and JavaFX.

I hope you all found something useful in this weeks link roundup. Keep up all the hard work folks, and I’ll be back in a weeks time to link to you all over again.

July already?! I know I say this often, but man, where does time go?! Also, happy Independence Day to the American readers out there (even though it’s technically not until tomorrow in your part of the world).

There are a heap of links, so lets jump right into it!

• Richard Bair blogged about one of the changes coming up in the next beta release of JavaFX 2.0 (build 34), namely new threading APIs.
  
• Antoine Mischler let me know about the JavaFX 2.0 release of FXForm2, which is a library for building user interface forms. It looks very full-featured for such an early release, and there is some good documentation to get started with.
• Tom Schindl was interviewed by JAXenter about his E(fx)clipse project, which aims to provide tooling for JavaFX development inside Eclipse. He talks about where the project currently is, and discusses a few areas of research he is considering pursuing.
• Jeff Friesen has posted part two of his ‘JavaFX 2.0 Beta Getting Started’ series. You can also read the first part if you want to catch up.
• Lawrence PremKumar has two blog posts: a custom SpecialPopup class (that isn’t actually extending Popup), and an example of how to load images in the background whilst showing the loading progress.
• Benny Gächter has posted a port of his ‘avoid the red balls’ JavaFX Script game, now written using JavaFX 2.0.
• Bertrand Goetzmann has posted a short video of Grezi, a simple Zooming User Interface that he implemented with GroovyFX.

That’s all for another week. I hope you all found something useful! Until next week – keep up the hard work folks

Here we go again, with this weeks batch of links. Thanks to the people contacting me with links and praise – it’s all much appreciated Anyway, let’s get into things…

• There is an Oracle webcast coming up on the 30th of June that is titled ‘The Code of Enterprise Success Begins with JavaFX 2.0‘. It features Jai Suri and Jasper Potts talking about JavaFX 2.0, and might include some interesting news and demonstrations.
• Tom Schindl has announced e(fx)clipse. The 0.0.1 release is minimal but no doubt useful for JavaFX 2.0 developers choosing to use Eclipse: it introduces a CSS editor that supports the JavaFX -fx extensions.
• Jim Connor has blogged about translating a JavaFX Script application to JavaFX 2.0.
• Stephen Chin continues to present the ‘JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages‘ talk at conferences. He has just posted the slides for his talk at Jazoon, where he covers using JavaFX 2.0 with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom and Visage.
• Speaking of alternate languages, probably the one leading the pack is the GroovyFX project, which obviously provides improved Groovy support. They’ve just put up a heap of documentation that demonstrates how to use the JavaFX APIs using GroovyFX – be sure to check it out!
• Artem Ananiev has covered how to size your windows in JavaFX 2.0 easily.
• Seyhan Basmacı has blogged about building a JavaFX 2.0 sample application, which features a login form as well as a TableView, communicating with a remote server.
• jojorabbit4 has blogged about creating a custom JavaFX 2.0 ComboBox control. For what it’s worth, I spent a few hours this past weekend creating one as well, which may turn up somewhere sometime soon. I even posted an image or two to tease its current state (which is: unfinished, but much better than nothing).
• Laurent Nicolas has blogged about creating a simple JavaFX 2.0 slide presenter.
• Narayan has written about masking in JavaFX 2.0.

That’s all for this weeks folks. Keep up the blogging and exploring of the Java desktop APIs. Catch you in a weeks time!