November 5, 2009 - 8:49 pm
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Since I’m effectively relaunching this blog, I thought I would close the loop on JavaFX, which was primarily why I started the blog in the first place. Since the news that Oracle was buying Sun, I’ve not been convinced about the future of JavaFX. In the last couple of months I’ve come to the conclusion [...]
April 24, 2009 - 10:14 am
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One of the main reasons Oracle is buying Sun is to get it’s hands on Java. Much of it’s middleware stack is Java based and having control of Java the language and the default implementation makes sense for them. I don’t really fear for Java or the JVM. If anything I think it will do [...]
December 24, 2008 - 3:56 pm
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Here are the top three things that I instantly like about JavaFX Script:
1. Timelines
The Timeline class is just genius for anyone interested in creating GUI special effects. It makes simple animations a cinch and complex ones possible without tying yourself up in knots. The ability to trigger actions at key frames within the timeline does [...]
December 21, 2008 - 9:32 am
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As promised, the source code for the Laser Orbit demo is now available as a NetBeans (ANT) project under the MIT license. I refined the source since I originally wrote the demo, as I’ve learned more about JavaFX writing other demos (coming soon). As a result I’ve cut the code down by a third and [...]
December 13, 2008 - 10:12 pm
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This is a demo that I ported from www.shinedraw.com as an exercise to learn a bit more about JavaFX. Basically the line should follow and dance around the mouse pointer.
Note: I did have this embedded in the page as an applet but it appears to crash FireFox on Linux (not good) so for now I [...]