Java desktop links of the week, August 8

Welcome to another week of desktop links. This week there are a number of links, so hopefully there might be some that are of interest to you! Let's get right in to it :-)

JavaFX

• JavaFX 2.0 beta build 38 came out last week. This release was primarily a bug fix, performance tweak and API clean-up release, although it did also include the JavaFX 2.0 Beta Packager Tool.
• Over on FX Experience I reposted an internal introduction to FXML document. This post introduces FXML to quite some depth. FXML is the scriptable, XML-based markup language for constructing Java object graphs, and in particular is designed for building JavaFX user interfaces.
• Per Bothner has blogged about JavaFX 2.0 applications written in Kawa. His first post is an introduction, with the second post showing how Kawa would handle JavaFX animations.
• Tom Eugelink has put out a new release of MigLayoutFX2 to get it working with the latest JavaFX 2.0 beta builds.
• Patrick Champion has posted a very simple example using FXML.
• Niklas Hofmann posted about an ImageView Node he wrote for JavaFX that handles SVG images. Note that it requires Apache Batik.

Swing

• Gerrit Grunwald has two Friday Fun Component posts. The first post is an animated progress bar component, the second post is about a flip-character component that allows for 'airport departure' style signs.

SWT

• Laurent Caron has posted an update to his opal project, this time including "a miller columns component to browse tree structures 'à la Next'".

Catch you all in a weeks time.