It’s another year already! I hope everyone had a great start to 2012. Because I published last weeks links roundup a few days late, there aren’t too many links this week, but the links I do have below are all of a very high quality. Enjoy!

• Dustin Marx has written five blog posts related to JavaFX this week. The titles are “Sneaking a Peek at JavaFX 2.1 Beta“, “JavaFX 2.0 Bar and Scatter Charts (and JavaFX 2.1 StackedBarCharts)“, “Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT“, “Rendering HTML Within JavaFX“, and “The Challenges of a JavaFX Reboot“.
• Ben Evans and/or Martijn Verburg posted about “What I learnt about JavaFX today“.
• Robert Felker has let me know he has written a tool called CloudExplorer for visualisation of data using JavaFX (and he has built it in Scala).
• It seems the current community effort is around building calendar controls in JavaFX. Today I came across the third implementation (I mentioned the other two last week). Sai Pradeep Dandem has written this weeks implementation.
• In a earlier post here at FX Experience, I posted a retrospective post looking at what has happened to JavaFX in the last 15 or so months.

Catch you in a weeks time, when I’ll be back in New Zealand!

Sorry for the delay in this post – with Christmas I managed to relatively disconnect from the web for a few days. Now that things are getting back to normal, I have a heap of links to share. Enjoy!

• The big JavaFX news this week was the release of early access builds of JavaFX 2.1 for Windows and Mac OS.
• Here at the FX Experience blog, Jasper Potts blogged about styling JavaFX Buttons with CSS, where he demonstrated the power of CSS in JavaFX.
• In a separate post, Jasper posted a tool he developed prior to JavaOne 2011 that converts FXG into FXML.
• As mentioned a few weeks ago, one of the new features in JavaFX 2.0.2 is support for SWT interoperability. Richard Bair put up a sample application that integrates JavaFX Charts into an SWT application.
• The OpenJFX website was updated this week to include a ‘Getting Started‘ document, as well as the first two user experience specifications for Spinner and ‘DatePicker’. These two were posted first as they are being discussed in the openjfx-dev mailing list.
• Jim Weaver was interviewed in episode 61 of the Java Spotlight Podcast.
• Toni Epple has blogged about creating a custom DateChooser control. There is a bit of broken generic code at the top of the top of the DateChooserSkin class, but other than that it is a complete example. This is a control that is planned for a future release of JavaFX, but until then there exists both this DateChooser, and the one shipped as part of JFXtras. Hopefully one of these implementations may even be incubated and adopted into a future JavaFX release, now that JavaFX UI Controls are open source.
• Adam Bien has blogged about how to compile JavaFX 2.0 applications using Maven 3.
• In a separate post, Adam gave a very simple example of how binding works in JavaFX (in the form of a unit test).
• Dustin Marx has four JavaFX-related blog posts up this week: “Simple JavaFX 2.0 Text Example“, “(Pure Java) JavaFX 2.0 Menus“, “JavaFX 2.0 Christmas Tree (JavaFX 2.0 Shapes)“, and “JavaFX 2.0 Path Alternatives“.
• Carl Dea, who recently published the ‘JavaFX 2.0 Introduction by Example‘ book, has published a sample on his blog.
• For those attending JFokus, you may be interested in the ConferenceBrowserFX application Jim Weaver has created.
• For those in the St. Louis area, Weiqi Gao is presenting at the St. Louis Java User Group on the topic of JavaFX on January 12th.
• I try to not post videos as links, but every now and then break the rules. This week I have two interesting videos to share. Firstly, Gerrit Grunwald has put up a comparison video of his SteelSeries gauges, that demonstrates the difference (or similarity) between the Swing/Java2D and JavaFX versions. The second video is from Bertrand Goetzmann, where he shows off the latest features in Grezi.

I hope you found something useful Catch you in a weeks time!

Here we go again…..enjoy!

• JavaFX 2.0.2 was released this week, bringing with it a heap of bug fixes, as well as a number of new features including SWT interoperability, and improved mouse scroll APIs. Additionally, the license was updated to allow for redistribution.
• A new JavaFX 2.0 Developer Preview release has been made available for Mac OS X.
• Coinciding with the release of JavaFX 2.0.2, the JavaFX Documentation team put out a number of new articles, covering topics such as JavaFX menus, styling charts with CSS, handling events, and others.
• The JavaFX roadmap has been updated to give more detail about future releases.
• Tom Schindl has announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.0.9, as usual it comes with bug fixes and a few new features, including improved wizards, improvements to his fxgraph DSL, and early FXML support.
• Sven Reimers and Geertjan Wielenga have announced the eFX project, which is a JavaFX RCP based on the NetBeans RCP.
• John Smith has blogged about having a code editor in JavaFX by embedding the JavaScript CodeMirror editor inside a JavaFX WebView.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged about using ContextMenu in both JavaFX, and when embedded within a JFXPanel inside Swing.
• Dustin Marx has blogged “Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Command Line“.