Here’s a special edition of Java desktop links for folks. I thought, given the fact I’ve accumulated a few good links this week already, and that I’ll be super-busy next week and probably won’t be able to share any links, that I’ll get a post out before I fly out to JavaOne. Enjoy

• Mean words are being said, battle lines are drawn, and full-on war is nearing…at least in the vicious GroovyFX vs ScalaFX battle for minds and hearts. Stephen Chin started it with his post introducing ScalaFX. He may not have said it, but I’m sure you could tell he was suggesting that ScalaFX was the better choice over GroovyFX….
• Naturally, Dean Iverson wasn’t going to take this lying down, so he fired up his blog and posted a stinging GroovyFX rebuttal.
• Backing Dean was Jim Clarke, co-developer of the GroovyFX library along with Dean. Jim has just started a series of blog posts on getting started with GroovyFX.
• Of course, I’m sure both Stephen and Dean are toiling away on their own implementations. They’ll be meeting head-to-head for a winner-takes-all battle at their JavaOne session next week: ‘JavaFX 2.0 with Alternative Languages’. Unfortunately, this session conflicts with a session I’m giving on ‘JavaFX Data Sources’, but alas, I’m sure you’ll all make the right call.
• Speaking of the JavaFX Data Sources talk I am co-presenting with Johan Vos, we just put up a website for the related project: DataFX. It is two projects in one: a series of data source adapters to make bring data into JavaFX UI Controls simpler, and a number of pre-built cell factories to make rendering data simpler and richer. Downloads will be enabled next week once we’ve presented our talk.
• Final warning: next week Peter Pilgrim will be presenting his ‘Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components‘ JavaOne talk at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group. It’s on Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 6:00 PM. As per usual, it’ll be live streamed for those that can’t attend in person. For the first time, I’m hoping to finally be able to attend in person this month.
• Tom Schindl has put up a blog post on ‘How to author FXML‘, which demonstrates some work he has done to make developing JavaFX interfaces simpler in his e(fx)clipse project.
• In another post, Tom has just announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.0.6. This release incorporates the FXML authoring support mentioned in the previous link, as well as updated CSS support, improved OSGi bundling support, and the beginnings of runtime components (including layout APIs and OSGi support).

Ok, that’s it for this week. I apologise in advance for any lapses in links postings for the next few weeks. I’ll try my best, but I’m really hoping you folks make it easier for me by emailing me any new and wonderful links you may find. Also, as I said last week, I’m really looking forward to catching up with you all next week at JavaOne. If you see me, please come up and chat – the hallway track is by far the most fun part of JavaOne.

Until next time, have a great week, enjoy JavaOne, and I’ll see you on the other side!

Here we are: one week to go until JavaOne starts. There are a number of links this week, but I’m sure there will be a lot of good news coming in the next few weeks. I’ll try my best to get blog posts out whilst I’m traveling, but I can’t guarantee it. I’m away for three weeks from October 1 to October 23.

For those of you coming to JavaOne, I’m really looking forward to catching up with you – if you spot me please come up and chat!

• Tom Schindl has blogged about JavaFX 2.0 and OSGi integration.
• Weiqi Gao tweeted that he has created a JavaFX 2.0 properties live templates for IDEA. You can get the file from his website.
• Christian Schlichtherle has blogged about a Maven archetype for JavaFX 2.0 in Scala.
• Another reminder that the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group is meeting on October 13, with Peter Pilgrim presenting on the topic of ‘Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components‘. As always, it’ll be live-streamed.
• Stephen Chin was interviewed by the Java Spotlight podcast about his sessions at JavaOne.
• Laurent Nicolas has put up a blog post about using SVGPath in JavaFX 2.0.

Catch you all at JavaOne, or in another links roundup as soon as I can create it!

Another week, and a lot of good links. Not long now until JavaOne, when I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting news coming out. Let’s get into the news.

• JavaFX 2.0 beta b45 came out this week. Grab it while it’s hot.
• The JavaFX documentation team is doing a great job of tracking what is changing between beta builds, and keeping you in the loop. Find out what changed in b44 and b45 over at the JavaFX documentation blog.
• The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group has a session the week following JavaOne, on Thursday, October 13. This month the presentation is by Peter Pilgrim, repeating a presentation he is also giving at JavaOne. The talk is titled “Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components“. For the first time, I’ll be able to attend in person, and given that this session talks about custom controls, it’s right up my alley. For those of you who can’t  be there in person, remember it is also live-streamed via UStream.
• Dean Iverson tweeted that he has released version 0.2 of the Griffon JavaFX 2.0 plugin.
• The in-development NetBeans 7.1 contains much greater support for JavaFX 2.0, including support for FXML, CSS3, preloaders, and project configuration.
• Randahl Fink Isaksen, a frequent and valuable reporter of JavaFX 2.0 bugs, has written a post titled “JavaFX eats HTML UIs for breakfast“.

That’s that for another week. Hope you all found something useful!

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