Java desktop links of the week, April 14

Another week, another bunch of links. Enjoy! :-)

JavaFX

• Danno Ferrin has a good post about getting your Java 8 app in the Mac App Store. He recently proved the concept by uploading a bitcoin tracking application that he developed to the app store.
• Dirk Lemmermann has two blog posts this week, both of which are tips for fellow JavaFX developers. Firstly, he has posted about creating a resizable canvas in JavaFX, and secondly he has posted a tip about how to ensure lines are sharp / non-blurry when drawn in canvas.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted that his Horizon control from the SteelSeries Swing library is now also available as a JavaFX 8 control.
• Tomas Mikula continues to develop interesting JavaFX libraries. This week he announced LiveDirsFX, a directory tree model for JavaFX that watches the filesystem for changes.
• Jurgen has a series of blog posts (currently there are nine of them) covering his work on moving a complex application with a lost of custom code from JavaFX 2.2 to JavaFX 8.0. It's a good read for anyone about to upgrade their software.
• Sébastien Bordes has posted about how to participate in the JRebirth roadmap.
• Sven Ruppert has posted part two of his series of posts on Java8 CompletableFuture for JavaFX and CDI.
• William Antônio Siqueira has posted about having fun creating a JavaFX App to visualize tweet sentiments.
• Jeff Martin has updated SnapCode, his IDE and RAD tool for education, entertainment and the enterprise.
• Pedro Duque Vieira updated his JMetro sliders I linked to last week to fix up the issue where the fill was on the wrong side when vertical.

Swing / Java2D

• JFreeSVG 1.8 is now available to download. This release adds more rendering hint control, improved Stroke handling and an important bug fix regarding character encoding.

Catch you all next week :-)