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Java desktop links of the week, September 6

Published on September 6, 2010 in Java and JavaFX. 1 Comment Tags: javafx, swing.

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, in both the Swing and JavaFX worlds.

Swing

Kirill Grouchnikov this week announced that he was suspending support for his Substance, Flamingo, Trident and related projects. He has shifted his spare-time focus in recent months to JavaScript-related projects (he is currently porting Trident to JavaScript).
Thorsten Klimpel let me know about a post by Illya Yalovyy, which talks about migrating an application to make use of the Better Swing Application Framework.
René Jahn emailed me about JVx, an open source framework that appears to abstract away the underlying GUI toolkit, whilst also offering a number of conveniences.
Alexander Pupeikis has posted an images filter demo application, which is apparently part of a new project he is working on. The source code is available, as is a Java Web Start link.

JavaFX

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

Java Desktop links of the week, August 30

Published on August 30, 2010 in Java, JavaFX and Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

A very quiet week in the land of the Java Desktop, although thanks to the people who emailed me their links. 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!

Swing

Wolfgang Zitzelsberger has part 3 of the series of posts on TableCellRenderers. This post focuses on delegate renderer examples.
Rhiannon Liebowitz let me know that a new Swing component has been released for sale. It is a skinnable Calendar/Date Picker control.

JavaFX

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

Java desktop links of the week, August 23

Published on August 23, 2010 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

Another week has started, so it must be time for another batch of Java desktop links. As per usual there are some very good links this week, so enjoy

Swing

Andres Almiray pointed me to AreaX, an optimised replacement for the java.awt.geom.Area class that appears to have some good performance improvements.

JavaFX

Srikanth Shenoy has released FxContainer 1.0, which is an IoC container written in JavaFX, for JavaFX applications. You can learn more about FxContainer as a PDF (or an embedded PDF if you prefer).
Exadel have released the 1.3.5 release of their free JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse. The two major features of this release are ‘setting VM parameters for JavaFX application’ and ‘option to specify custom JNLP arguments’.
Osvaldo Doederlein has continued his deep dive series of posts, this time covering ‘JDK 6u21, JavaFX 1.3.1 and Deployment‘.
In another post, Exadel have announced that Exadel Flamingo now supports CDI and Bean Validation for JavaFX.
William Antônio has blogged about an application he created to retrieve images from various web services, and to manipulate them locally.
Yücel Ünlü has blogged about using code optimization software to reduce the size of JavaFX applications.
Henrik Samuelsson has created a JavaFX application for people wanting to improve their poker skills.
Richa Singhal has provided a JavaFX Marquee effect. Use with caution (because no one likes marquees ).

That’s it for another week. Thanks to everyone for emailing links to include. I’ll catch you all again in a weeks time

Java desktop links of the week, August 16

Published on August 16, 2010 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 1 Comment Tags: javafx, swing.

A big week in the Java world, and I’m going to completely side-step the elephant in the room in todays post. This week there has been a great number of Java desktop posts, so I am very pleased to be presenting these links to you today. Enjoy!

Swing

Kirill Grouchnikov has published the final releases of Trident 1.3, Flamingo 5.0, Substance 6.1 and the Substance Flamingo Plugin 6.1. People using older versions are encouraged to upgrade as these releases contain bug fixes and new features.
Gerrit Grunwald has finally stopped teasing us with screenshots of his Swing gauge library, and has released them as a jar file to include in your applications. It appears that source code is not currently available, and the license is also unclear, so proceed with caution you can download the source code from the Kenai project site, where it is BSD licensed.
Jacek Furmankiewicz has announced the 1.0 release of Swing JavaBuilder. Swing JavaBuilder is a library aiming to maximise the productivity of Java Swing developers via declarative UIs, MigLayout, DSL, databinding and built-in input validation.
Kas Thomas has written about creating a “Smart Sobel” image filter.
It seems like there is still life left in the Swing component market, with a new company entering the scene. Currently they offer Accordion, wrapping label and analog clock components.
Michael Schnell wrote in to say that a new version of the webstart based installer “Kickstart4J” is available. Kickstart4J is a Java Webstart based installer and updater. You can find more information here.

JavaFX

Eric Bruno has posted an article over at Dr Dobbs about building custom controls in JavaFX, in particular a ListView control that supports multiple selection. Remember that recently FX Experience also posted an example on how to create a multiple selection ListView.
Martijn van de Rijdt has written about building a JavaFX project with Maven using javaFX 1.3 and the JFrog JavaFX Compiler Maven Plugin.
itssmee has blogged about recreating Radioheads ‘House of Cards’ music video in JavaFX (the original video was created in Processing). For those unsure what is being referred to, check out this YouTube video.
Sergey Malenkov has blogged about multi-threading in JavaFX, by recreating Reversi.
Abhilshit Soni has posted ‘Yet another JavaFX App‘, which includes a runnable demo and source code.

Miscellaneous

Josh Marinacci has announced his project Leonardo, which is “an open source vector drawing program for the 21st century. It focuses on common tasks like mockups, sketches, and presentations with a clean and consistent user interface. It is designed to be augmented by internet webservices and plugins created in several scripting languages.” Leonardo is written in Java, but does not use Swing or JavaFX, and as far as I can see, is just using custom components written by Josh.

That’s that for another week. I hope you all found something useful in the links today, and thanks to everyone for emailing their links to me. Catch you all in a weeks time

Gerrit Grunwald

Java desktop links of the week, August 2

Published on August 2, 2010 in Java and JavaFX. 0 Comments Tags: javafx.

Howdy folks. This week there wasn’t a lot of news in the Java desktop world, especially to do with Swing. There were a number of good JavaFX posts, which I’ve included here, and also a Apache Pivot discussion. Enjoy!

JavaFX

Srikanth Shenoy has released FxObjects 0.1. FxObjects is a open source Enterprise JavaFX Application Development framework. The whole intention of the framework is to make Enterprise JavaFX application development easy, elegant and fast. There is a quick summary, and also a 50-page user guide PDF.
Stuart Marks has blogged about ‘Missing Listeners and Local Overrides‘ in the JavaFX UI controls.
Speaking of control listeners, Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged his event handling proposal.
Patrick Champion has blogged about a RESTful client in JavaFX.
One of the new features in the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse is support for ‘Organize Imports‘.
Mark Anro Silva posted his JavaFX animation demo.
I posted two screencasts related to my personal SplitView project. At this point it’s a very early proof of concept only.

Apache Pivot

The Apache Software Foundation asks “Have you met Apache Pivot?“. There is also further discussion over at DZone.

That’s all for this week – I told you it was a quick post. Catch you in a weeks time.

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