Java desktop links of the week, February 13

Welcome to another weeks worth of interesting Java desktop links. I hope you enjoy! :-)

Another week brings another developer preview release of JavaFX 2.1, this week taking the build number up to b12.
Brian Burkhalter, a member of the JavaFX media team, has blogged about the upcoming MPEG-4 multimedia support in JavaFX 2.1.
Michael Heinrichs has put up another useful post, this week detailing when to use a ChangeListener, and when to use an InvalidationListener in JavaFX. This is very useful to know as there can be major performance repercussions if you don't understand the difference.
Dustin Marx continues his posts on JavaFX, this week detailing path transitions in the JavaFX 2.x animation APIs.
It seems playing with TextField is popular now. Following on from Richards blogs mentioned last week, Thomas Bolz has blogged about has blogged about creating both a JavaFX NumberTextField, and a Spinner control. Dierk König has done a simliar thing, except he shows how he did it using GroovyFX.
In another post by Dierk, he covers the basics about UI construction with JavaFX.
The slides and code from Weiqi Gao's talk at the St. Louis Java Users Group is now available online.

Catch you all next week!

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