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Archived JavaFX Articles
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14 Mar 2013
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CaptainCasa Adopts JavaFX for Developing Common Front-end Busines App Infrastructure [30150]
Combines HTML5 as an Alternative to Swing
Captain Casa, developer of the CaptainCasa Enterprise Client for business applications, is moving from Swing to JavaFX, Björn Müller writes on technetwork. Implementing an employee desktop front end with native technology is a valid approach, and JavaFX is a good fit, Müller asserts, recommending the use of JavaFX for employee desktop screens and HTML5 for simple use cases and anonymous use cases. A thin client architecture based on JavaFX and including a server component leveraging Java EE standards, can be used for business application use cases. Such an arrangement can be used for the employee front ends of business applications, he concludes.
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14 Feb 2013
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JavaFX Open Source: A Progress Report [29783]
Plans Are to Include Android and iOS Implementations as Well
The open sourcing of JavaFX is the subject of a progress report by Richard Bair, who shares a list of projects that have been moved to open source, along with news about what to expect by way of the actual completion of the undertaking. Bair also shares the news that the Android and iOS implementations will also be open sourced, even as he addresses Apple's antipathy toward GPL-licensed applications in its app store. He suggests a workaround to use until such time as Apple changes its mind about the GPL-licensed app, which is to use JavaFX on iOS via OpenJDK / OpenJFX.
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11 Jan 2013
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Reports from Devoxx: Interviews with JavaFX Developers [29274]
What's New, What's Popular, and Why JavaFX Looks Better all the Time
Reporting from Devoxx Yolande Poirier presents three videos featuring Java luminaries who report on what is new in JavaFX 2.2. The speakers are Jim Weaver, Gerrit Grunwald, Pär Sikö and Martin Grunnarsson, each of whom identifies a favorite JavaFX feature or two. Weaver, for example, talks up Web View, which resolves the question about possible incompatibilities between JavaFX and HTML5 (there are none, he contends). Software engineer Grunwald, who concentrates on desktop development, praises Java as his unparalleled developer language of choice. Designer-developers Gunnarsson and Siko discuss their Devoxx presentation, a talk on how to bring web content into JavaFX applications.
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14 Dec 2012
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Documentation Changes Accompany Release of JavaFX 2.2.4 [28896]
New Releases, Updates and Revisions
There have been revisions and additions to the documentation for JavaFX 2.2.4 and JDK 7u10, which were recently released to GA. The changes include:
- A new document, Using the Image Ops API, describes how to read and write raw pixel data to and from JavaFX images.
- The Handling JavaFX Events document has been updated with more information on touch events, along with changes to The Working with Touch Events chapter and Touch Events sample
- The Implementing Best Practices document has been updated
- The Troubleshooting section of Deploying JavaFX Applications now includes a section about disabling the automatic proxy configuration.
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31 Oct 2012
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JavaOne 2012 and the JavaFX DEMOgrounds [28294]
Post Lists Q&As, Demos from the Conference
As evidence of the progress Oracle has made over the past year in refining JavaFX, Janice J. Heiss has put together a brief list of Q&As directed to and answered by the JavaFX team. She also includes a list of the several JavaFX Demos that were on display at JavaOne 2012. These include:
- JavaFX Ensemble: over 100 JavaFX samples
- FX Experience Tools: utilities to create new skins
- JavaFX Scene Builder: visual layout tool lets users quickly design UI without coding
- Scenic View: shows current state of application UI
- Conference Tour
- FXMediaPlayer: displays different media functionality
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12 Oct 2012
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The JavaFX Community Creates Its Own Site on Java.net [28008]
Community Leaders Gerrit Grunwald and Jim Weaver Invite Feedback
The JavaFX Community now has its own site, which is an aggregator of JavaFX information, where users can find links to JavaFX blog posts, tweets, and other resources, Tori Weildt posts, adding that Gerrit Grunwald and Jim Weaver are the community leaders for this site, who welcome feedback on how to make the JavaFX Community site more useful to its growing community.
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