JavaFX links of the week, October 18

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 17, 2010 | Links

Welcome to another week of JavaFX links 🙂 This week we have the following interesting links:

• Coming up on November 10 is the next Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group talk, which is also broadcast in video live to those not in the Silicon Valley area. The November talk is Stephen Chin reprising the talk he and I gave at JavaOne on JavaFX 2.0 using alternative languages (for those unwilling to wait until November 10, you can find the slides we used on my blog). He will also be giving more details on project Visage, the fork of the JavaFX Script compiler to support the JavaFX Script language on JavaFX 2.0 and alternate GUI toolkits.
• Martin Ryzl has put up a screencast on how to use new data sources in JavaFX Composer in the NetBeans 6.10 M1 IDE.
• IBM DeveloperWorks has an article up on how to ‘use JavaFX to quickly create applications‘, with the subtitle of ‘JavaFX + Eclipse IDE = Easy GUI’
• Last week I mentioned that Kim Topley has released a new book about JavaFX 1.3. This week there is an excerpt from this book available at InformIT. It covers JavaFX effects and blends.

That’s us for another week – I hope you found one or two of them interesting. Catch you all in a weeks time.

JavaFX links of the week, October 11

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 10, 2010 | Links

Howdy. Todays post should really be titled ‘Java desktop links of the past three weeks’, but I’m sure you’re aware that I was overseas and unfortunately too busy to do a proper post. Regardless, during that time I was still collecting links as best I could, and have posted them below. Due to the sheer number of links, I have only included the links of most relevance. Apologies if your link wasn’t included (although I may have also genuinely missed it). As always, if you want a link included, it’s best to flick me an email and I’ll include it in the next weeks post if it’s suitable. Right, let’s get on with the links!

JavaFX 2.0

The big news at JavaOne for us was obviously the announcement of JavaFX 2.0. I’ve got a tonne of links below, and it’s well worth reading the comment sections of most blog posts for further discussion and clarification.

• Oracle has published a roadmap that discusses the plans for 2010 and 2011 for JavaFX 2.0. Stephen Chin summarised this on his blog.
• Richard Bair posted about JavaFX 2.0, and also Swing integration with JavaFX 2.0.
• Amy Fowler has written up a ‘heartfelt ramble on Swing & JavaFX‘
• Stephen Chin and I did a talk at JavaOne to show you early demos of what JavaFX 2.0 could look like in alternative languages (as well as Java).
• For those mourning the loss of JavaFX Script, the Visage project has been announced. This is basically a fork of the open source JavaFX Script compiler, which will be targeted to work on JavaFX 2.0 once the API becomes available.
• Alex Ruiz has covered one of the exciting reasons we’re moving back to Java: the availability of heaps of tools designed to support Java.
• A number of blog posts covered the topic of JavaFX 2.0, but to save space I’ll just mention the author of each one here. The blogs were written by Simon Morris, Osvaldo Doederlein, James Sugrue, Mitchell Pronschinske, Nick Apperley, Will Billingsley, Max Katz, and Johan Vos.

JavaFX 1.x

• Kim Topley has put out the JavaFX Developer’s Guide, which is now available from Amazon and other bookstores.
• Johan Vos presented a few sessions at JavaOne, and has put up the code for your edutainment.
• Speaking of Johan, here is an interview he did whilst at JavaOne about RedFX.
• Stephen Chin has posted the slides from his two other talks from JavaOne on his blog. These cover JFXtras and ‘Building Enterprise Applications with JavaFX’.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has just released Modellus 5 beta 1. The interesting thing about this application is that it combines Swing and JavaFX very nicely.

Well, there’s a tonne of links in there – hopefully you found something interesting or useful! Now that I’ve spent the last two hours reading and writing these links, it’s time to get to work 🙂 Catch you all in a weeks time, where things will return to normal.

JavaFX links of the week, September 18

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 17, 2010 | Links

A slightly early post this week, as the normal post date coincides with me being enroute to San Francisco and JavaOne. Therefore, not as much news as usual – but I’m sure there will be plenty of JavaFX news in the next few weeks to make up for this. Enjoy 🙂

• Amy Fowler, a team mate in the JavaFX UI Controls team, has just published a list of the JavaOne talks she is more excited about.
• Similarly, Stephen Chin has posted a list of JavaOne sessions he is considering the ‘JavaFX Expert RIA’ track.
• Martin Ryzl and Irina Filippova have a tutorial up on using JavaFX graphic resources in JavaFX Composer.
• Marceli Narcyz let me know about a JavaFX Checkers applet he has built.

That’s it for this (short) week. Like I said last week, I’ll try to do a post whilst I’m overseas, but no guarantees 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 13

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 12, 2010 | Links

The final week of JavaFX desktop links before JavaOne, and bucking the trend I mentioned last week, there has been a heap of posts this week. Let’s get into them!

• Jim Weaver has written about the new LoadUI application developed by eviware. They’ve clearly put a lot of effort into this application.
• Stephen Chin has blogged about the session he and I are presenting at JavaOne, which focuses on writing JavaFX applications in alternative languages.
• The NetBeans folks have an article up on how to use the JavaFX Composer to build grid-based application user interfaces.
• Jan-Hendrik Kuperus has a post discussing the differences between the JFXtras XGrid and the preview Grid layout containers.
• JavaBeat has a four-page article up about the ‘JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook’ book. It appears to cover how to use various parts of the JavaFX API.
• Matt Warman has an article up discussing his findings in the latest JavaFX 1.3.1 release.
• Carlos Quintanilla has blogged a few basic JavaFX Script examples – in particular how to define classes.
• Daniel Mikusa has created another JavaFX Game of Life implementation.
• siesiek has posted about centering nodes in a stack.
  

That’s that for another week. I’m not sure when the next post will be as I’ll be travelling to the US for two weeks next weekend. I’ll try to put something out, but I’m not sure when 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 6

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 5, 2010 | Links

Wow, it’s September already! This year is flying by, and JavaOne is right on the door step. This week there is a bunch of interesting news: let’s get right into it!

• Osvaldo Doederlein has an article discussing how he attempted to solve a DropBox coding challenge using JavaFX. In his usual style this is an interesting and informative read.
• Irina Filippova has a detailed article discussing how to create a simple database client using the JavaFX Composer.
• The SmartFaces project is starting to embrace JavaFX, with a SpellChecker component being the latest addition to the component suite that is written in JavaFX.
• Nick Apperley announced the release of JFX Blocks 0.3, which includes new controls, and more focus on media playback functionality.
• siesiek has a simple tutorial explaining how to use the JavaFX bind functionality to center nodes in a container or scene.
• The JavaFX Cookbook website has a brief tutorial on using the JavaFX reflection API. Note that reflection is slow, so use it sparingly, and only where absolutely necessary.

That’s that for another week. I hope you found a useful link or two. Catch you all again next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 30

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 29, 2010 | Links

A very quiet week in the land of the JavaFX. I put this partly down to the JavaOne effect – everyone is off working on their talks and not blogging as much – the same thing happened last year. As always, feel free to email me with any comments or suggestions you may have.

On with the news!

• With the release of his new book, Vladimir Vivien has also posted a JavaFX Cookbook website with a number of useful tutorials.
• Mayboroda Dmitiry has two posts this week. His first post discusses improvements to my multiple selection hack for ListView. His second post discusses creating pseudo classes in JavaFX, and builds a TabPanel control to demo it (with source code). I’m not sure what it is with TabPanel / TabView controls – we all seem to be building them 🙂
• William Antônio showed off his HttpRequester application which is essentially a GUI frontend for the JavaFX HttpRequest class.

That’s it for another week. Thanks for coming along and I hope something in the links list was helpful to you. Catch you all in a weeks time 🙂