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JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages at the SvJugFx
It is kind of ironic, but after a year running I have never spoken at my own user group. In November I am going to break the trend and present an updated version of the JavaFX Alternative Language talk that I gave at JavaOne. You can sign-up for the event here:
Apropos Launches into the Stratus
Followers of my blog have probably heard about the Apropos project that I built in JavaFX and released as open-source. It is an Agile Project Portfolio Planning tool that I developed for work to help manage our large Agile rollout. Apropos is a perfect application of rich client technology, because it sits on top of the web services exposed by Rally, and provides a higher level of visibility and planning.
Announcing Visage - The DSL for Writing UIs
I am pleased to announce the Visage Language, a domain specific language (DSL) for writing user interfaces.
JavaOne Enterprise JavaFX and JFXtras Presentations
Download Pro JavaFX Platform Presentation as a PDF
JavaFX 2.0 (a.k.a. What Just Happened to JavaFX Script?)
There were some huge announcements at JavaOne today for the JavaFX platform. Overall I think the announcements show some very positive momentum for the future of JavaFX and rich client Java, but there were some casualties...
JavaOne Expert RIA Track
This is going to be a big year for JavaFX and RIA technologies at JavaOne. What does your JavaOne schedule look like this year? Are you going to settle for beginner content, or are you ready for the Expert RIA Track.
JavaFX Your Way: Building JavaFX Applications with Alternative Languages
Petition to Open Source JavaFX
At last night's Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group event, I announced a petition to Open Source the JavaFX Platform. This is a petition from the Java and JavaFX Community directed to the management of Oracle Corporation. The goal of the petition is to increase the viability of the JavaFX platform to the benefit of both the community and Oracle. To the Leaders, Management, and Board of Directors at Oracle Corporation,
Bay Area JUG Round-Up and Stuart's Hands-on JavaFX Videos Available
I am pleased to announce that we have a couple new videos available on the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group (SvJugFx) video site. Here is a link to the landing page where you can watch these videos as well as all our previous sessions:
Building Data Rich Interfaces with JavaFX
I had my Jazoon talk this morning on building data rich user interfaces with JavaFX. In an informal poll before the start, it seemed like many of the attendees had not yet tried JavaFX, so hopefully this has encouraged them to give it a spin.
JavaFX Talks Accepted
I am honored to be accepted by some great conferences to speak on JavaFX. Each of the talks I am giving is unique, which means more work for me, but is a great opportunity to talk about some different topics that I think are important for folks using JavaFX.
Announcing the Apropos Project
At the Lean Software and Systems Conference a week ago, Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston, and I did a presentation on Reformulating the Product Delivery Process. At the end of this talk, we unveiled an open-source, JavaFX tool called Apropos that we use for Product Portfolio Planning at Inovis.
JavaFX 1.3 Top 10
JavaFX 1.3 has just gone live on JavaFX.com. This release is deceptively small, but has an enormous number of changes under the hood. In this post I will take you through the Top 10 major features, giving you background information I learned from working with the JavaFX team, and flooding you with details on interesting tidbits you might otherwise miss. JavaFX 1.3 Top 10 Features 1. New Controls JavaFX 1.3 comes with several new controls that are extremely useful when designing user interfaces. For building forms you have the new PasswordBox, ChoiceBox, and Separator classes. The PasswordBox is similar to the TextBox control, except it automatically hides input as it is typed. The ChoiceBox control is long overdue, but surprisingly simple to use. The interface is similar to the ListView control, both of which take a sequence of items.
JFXtras 0.6 Final Released
I am pleased to announce the 0.6 release of the open-source JFXtras project, the largest 3rd party library of JavaFX add-ons. This release is a very large undertaking that represents the work of several dozen contributors over the past 6 months.
JavaFX Store and JFrog Artifactory Videos on Ubivent
Our April SvJugFx presentation will feature Stuart Marks from the JavaFX Team in Hands on JavaFX - Scripting the Scene Graph. To attend in person or via our live web stream (and be eligible for great prizes!), please sign-up here: http://www.svjugfx.org/calendar/12863551/
Launching Hyperlinks from JavaFX (including Mobile)
Creating hyperlinks in JavaFX should be in the category of things that are trivially easy, but is complicated by various factors, such as deployment mode and Java version. First I will go into detail on all the different permutations of how you can launch links in a browser and under what circumstances each will work. Next I will give you a nice packaged solution that you can use as a library (if you are impatient, just skip to The Easy Way Out now). Finally, I will show how you can do the same thing for JavaFX Mobile applications. A Tale of 3 APIs There are 3 different ways that you can launch hyperlinks in Java/JavaFX. It helps to have an internet connection such as broadband to be able to launch this. Unfortunately, none of them work in all circumstances, so you need to know when to call each. Here is a quick reference table:
Hinkmond's JavaFX Mobile Dojo
In case you missed the big event last week, I have finished post-processing and uploading the video. We took the quality up a notch by getting a direct screen capture from the presenter laptop. This means that you will not only get crystal clear slides, but also full-screen demos and a nice tight head-shot of the presenter. This moves our video setup firmly up from a Level 4 to a premium Level 1 operation as detailed in Stephan Janssen's blog.
JavaFX Layout Secrets with Amy Fowler
I finished post-processing and publishing our January talk with Amy Fowler on Parleys.com.
SvJugFx Stream Page
Just a quick note. I have added a new page for the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group live stream in the toolbar above. It contains an embedded movie player, chat window, and link to Google Moderator. The direct url is: http://steveonjava.com/svjugfx/
2010 Blog - Revisited
To bring in the New Year, I did a complete revamp of my blog. Wordpress.com served me well initially, but the limitations started to cramp my style. Now I am off the corporate cloud and running on a 100% Open Source platform.