In October 2011, I used the post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans IDE 7.1 beta to look at using NetBeans IDE 7.1 beta to build a simple Hello, World style of JavaFX 2.0 application. In this post, I look at using NetBeans IDE 7.1 (no lon ... [read more]

The beta is a 32-bit release, and requires Ubuntu 10.04 or later or equivalent, and requires JDK 7 Update 2. To give it a spin, I downloaded the JavaFX 2.1 SDK Developer Preview for Linux, the *.tar.gz version of 32-bit JDK 7. Untarred them into ... [read more]

A heap of links this week (partly because I’m a day and a half late with this post!). Hopefully something for everyone JavaFX 2.1 developer preview build 09 has been released. For the first time, this release includes support for Windows, Mac OS, ... [read more]

My co-authors (Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Johan Vos, tech reviewer Carl Dea) and I are pleased to report that the Pro JavaFX 2 Platform book is on track to ship by 15 February, 2012. [read more]

ConferenceBrowserFX, featured in an earlier blog post, is an application that leverages a REST API common to Devoxx and Jfokus.  Its purpose is to provide a UI that enables the user to quickly find sessions of interest. [read more]

Lately I've been receiving requests for JavaFX 2.0 mentoring, and am happy to announce that I'm now providing mentoring and training services. Please contact me at jim.weaver @ javafxpert.com if you'd like to schedule a JavaFX mentoring session. ... [read more]

I recently finished writing a book on the new release of the JavaFX 2.0 SDK (JavaFX 2.0 Introduction by Example) and it has already been placed on the shelves at a bookstore (Amazon) near you. The book will walk you through, step-by-step, giving ... [read more]

In just under a two year period they (JavaFX teams) have managed to take on most if not all the features from 1.0 to 1.3.x, added many new controls and increased performance. [read more]

The Titanium product promises desktop and mobile development, using HTML, CSS and Javascript, to Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone and soon Blackberry. [read more]

It will be difficult to fit in long labels when they are horizontal. Labels will overlap. So it may be nice to rotate the label by small angle so as to fit long text. We may do this by customizing CategoryAxis. As of now it depends on some intern ... [read more]

There was a question related to setting of background color for TreeView. Yes we can do lot of customization of Controls using CSS. It may be a bit difficult at this point of time due to lack of proper documentation. But you can start playing wit ... [read more]

In my opinion 'Perception' is key and when it comes to user experience, it is often said that "If it looks and feels slow, the application is probably not worth running". [read more]

We are proud to announce that FEST-Assert 1.2 is out! [read more]

I’ve been reading for some time various articles and blogs about Polyglot Programming, and the perception I got is there are two opposite views: the ones preaching it and the ones that tried and it didn’t work for them. IMHO, the points made by p ... [read more]