I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax ... [read more]

A discription of what was in marina and what can be included in next iteration. [read more]

As already discussed, JavaFX 1.2 provide API set for Charts and Graphs. Though I decided to put my hand dirty in writing one 3D pie chart from my own. With mine, you will get additional feature of explode in and out feature . Well, action can be ... [read more]

If you're a Mac user and access javafx.com pages with embedded applets,, such as the JavaFX samples or documents on the Learn page, you may have noticed a new warning popping up, even for applets you've run before: [read more]

Execute top using ProcessBuilder, get the Process instance. Get the output stream from process and read the output of top command. Now parse this content (a bit tricky, each version had its own output format) to get the CPU and Memory information ... [read more]

There are two scenarios that will describe how data will flow. Scenario 1 is when a user is changing information on the view component and the data will be set on the domain object. Scenario 2 is when data is set in a domain object which intern w ... [read more]

The asynchronous task model has been much improved in JavaFX 1.2.  Not only does it have a simple and elegant API, but several of the asynchronous tasks (e.g. HttpRequest) in the JavaFX API now use this model.  In addition, there are a couple of ... [read more]

Final destination for us is death and final destination of a JavaFX application is Browser. So, we should know what all things we can do with an application, JavaFX application, in browser. Here are some : 1. Understand when our code will run o ... [read more]

JavaFX 1.2 has a new list control called ListView. ListView was designed to be virtual. This means it doesn’t actually create a text node for every item in the list. It only creates the text for the items which are visible on screen. As you scrol ... [read more]

JavaFX 1.2 has many new features, not the least of which is a stone-simple way of reading RSS and Atom feeds.  The new classes that contain much of this functionality are javafx.data.feed.rss.RssTask and javafx.data.feed.atom.AtomTask, respective ... [read more]

JavaFX 1.2 provides new APIs to handle RSS and ATOM feeds. RssTask and AtomTask parses the feeds and provide the content as JavaFX objects. It can also be configured to provide updates on regular intervals. [read more]

No, I'm not calling Richard Bair a horse, but rather using an idiom that has its origins in horse racing.  From The Phrase Finder: [read more]

Simple JavaFX Color-Picker control. I have provided similar controls before as part of blog and sample but this one can be easily incorporated into other products. [read more]

Although you probably didn't see me, I was at JavaOne, where they unveiled the JavaFX design tool. Although the demos were fairly minimal, the elegance, beauty, and genius of Anthony's design showed through to me. [read more]

My latest article of a series, “Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX Part 4“, was out on June 4. As we continue on bulding the game, the articles are getting more and more interesting now. [read more]