Here we go again! A huge number of links this week, but plenty of interesting news, so be sure to check it all out! Thanks to everyone in the community for creating all the news! 
If there is anything you want me to include, email me or contact me on twitter – my contact details are to the right.
General
- Want to go to JavaOne? Don’t have the cash to fly to San Francisco and buy the JavaOne tickets? You may be in luck, Sun and CodeProject have a competition going where the first prize is tickets (up to $1500USD worth), and a JavaOne conference pass. All you need to do is write an article about Java (including JavaFX I’m sure), and be the top-rated article (judged by both your peers and Sun) . And if anyone wins and doesn’t need the tickets, I’d gladly appreciate them
- Fabrizio Giudici posts that he has forked the Beans Binding project .
Swing
- Jan Haderka has announced that SwingX 0.9.6 has been released , which should be the last release before the 1.0 release. There are a number of bug fixes and code cleanups in this release, and even includes my first contribution to the project If you are not using SwingX , I seriously recommend that you explore the various components offered by the project.
- Ken Orr posts about an application developed by Dirk Lemmermann which looks very polished . It makes use of the Mac Widgets for Java project , and the post includes a number of screenshots which should serve as inspiration for many UI developers out there.
- Christopher Deckers got in touch with me to let me know that a new version of DJ Native Swing has been released . DJ Native Swing allows for easy integration between some native components and Swing applications, and provides native utilities to enhance Swing’s APIs.
- Alexander Potochkin (the current leader of the Swing Application Framework project) posts that the project is on the lookout for people to help contribute to it . I have a feeling this request has fallen on deaf ears – the SAF mailing list has been very quiet recently. If you think you can help, please, get in touch with Alexander and/or get on to the SAF mailing list. Perhaps it’s just me, but I feel like the SAF project is lacking a vision, so it would be good to have that clarified.
- The Swing JavaBuilder project has had it’s final 0.3 release . This project attempts to make it possible to build Swing user interfaces with a declarative markup language.
JavaFX
- JavaFX 1.1.1 has been released, prompting many to believe that the JavaFX versioning scheme is based on binary arithmetic. Despite this, Danny Coward has posted a quick summary with all the relevant links .
- Drew posts about his thoughts on JavaFX, and whether it is right for you .
- Wanting to do 3D in JavaFX? Following on from last weeks link, I have a direct link to the people behind the code . On their site is a few demos that you can run as webstart applications/applets.
- Richard Bair posts to show how he formats his JavaFX code . This is an odd discussion to have, but given how new the language is, best practises have yet to be worked out.
- JavaWorld has a tutorial on how to use a Swing spinner component in JavaFX . Following this tutorial, you should understand how to use other Swing components in JavaFX.
- Having never used db4o , I can’t offer much insight to the next post. However, according to the db4o developers, JavaFX plays nicely with it, allowing for <insert whatever db4o does> to work .
- James Connell posts about how he made a JavaFX game using the JavaFX production suite . I haven’t had a chance to read this indepth yet, but he appears to go into a lot of detail that’ll no doubt be invaluable to other JavaFX developers/designers.
- James Weaver , as per usual, has been busy promoting JavaFX. He has a puzzler for people to try to develop (solutions are in the comments) and a link to a very sad looking JavaFX petstore demo (at least align the components!).
Griffon
- Last week Andres Almiray’s (@aalmiray ) website was down, so I held back some of his links until this post. In one post, he talks about assorted Griffon 0.1.0 features . In another post, he discusses various builders offered that make building Swing-based user interfaces easier .
- James Williams (@ecspike ) has a post containing a video from his presentation in Sydney regarding Griffon and how it relates to Swing . You need to click the ‘On Demand’ button and select his video from the list.
That’s it – have a great week everyone!
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