JavaOne Enterprise JavaFX and JFXtras Presentations
steveonjava | September 26, 2010Speaking at JavaOne was challenging, but fun this year. With the surprise announcements about JavaFX 2.0 there wasn’t a lot of time to respond, but I managed to refocus all my talks in a very short amount of time.
Pro JavaFX Platform – Building Enterprise Applications with JavaFX
My second talk on Tuesday with Jim Weaver was packed to the brim with folks eager to ask questions about the new direction. We managed to both hit our original presentation topic about enterprise JavaFX development as well as distill the new JavaFX 2.0 market pitch down to something that makes sense to developers. As an added bonus we threw in some examples of what the new JavaFX APIs could look like from Scala code.
Download Pro JavaFX Platform Presentation as a PDF
JFXtras – JavaFX Controls, Layout, Services, and More
The JFXtras BOF was standing room only with a lot of very prestigious folks from the desktop community filling the chairs. We covered the latest JFXtras 0.7 features and updated everyone on the plan for the future of JFXtras in light of the JavaFX 2.0 announcement. At the end of the presentation we announced a new language project called Visage to fill the gap left by JavaFX Script (more on this in a future post).
Download JFXtras Presentation as a PDF
Even if you couldn’t attend, hopefully you can get a flavor for how the talks went by skimming the above presentations.
See you at JavaOne next year!
support visage,
You have mixed the download links, I believe
Fixed — Thanks for mentioning this.
Sorry about popping the question, are there any plans to finalize JFXtras 0.7 (including publishing its JavaFX doc) or is everything on hold until you get a version compatible with that yet to become real JavaFX 2.0 (100% pure Java)?
After seeing your presentation, I was playing with the XPane lately and found out that the version in 0.7 RC2 is not really functional: the pane appears transparent.
Unlike what’s described in the source, CSS does not seem to work or I have yet to guess the correct syntax and unfortunately the API members from 0.6 are not there anymore (and yet people do not understand why I am not such a big fan of CSS hocus-pocus vs. good plain olde reliable and well documented API…).
To get the default CSS stylesheet working, you need to add the JFXtras CSS to your main Stage like this:
scene: Scene {
stylesheets: ["/org/jfxtras/scene/control/skin/jfxtras.css"]
It is a bit of a pain, so we are looking for some alternative solutions.
The plan is still to release a 0.7 release, but it will be very close to the current release candidate.
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