I'll be traveling to Stockholm in a few days to give a University session on JavaFX at Jfokus on January 27, 2009. During that week on January 29-30 I'll...
4 replies - 4466 views - 01/08/09 by Jim Weaver in Articles
Desktop Widgets for the JavaFX Platform I am pleased to announce the 1.0 Release of the WidgetFX desktop widget framework: http://widgetfx.org/. WidgetFX is an...
0 replies - 3665 views - 01/06/09 by Stephen Chin in Announcements
One of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches is More Cowbell, in which Christopher Walken's character keeps asking for "more cowbell" during a...
0 replies - 4606 views - 12/26/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
This is my first JavaLobby post without JavaFX in the title, so please bear with me :-) Anyway, I have a simple question to which I suspect there is no...
13 replies - 9374 views - 12/23/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
I'd like to use a JavaFX program to echo the same holiday wish that the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission extended 40 years ago. The program, as you'll see...
4 replies - 4069 views - 12/20/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
ReportMill Software, Inc., with support from Sun Microsystems, today announced the release of JFXBuilder - the first visual design application for JavaFX....
0 replies - 7550 views - 12/19/08 by Jeff Martin in Announcements
With JavaFX 1.0 having been released just a few days ago, I'm pleased that we're observing more JavaFX applications "in the wild". Here's one that I...
4 replies - 4524 views - 12/18/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
MiG Layout is the most versatile Java Layout Manager for Swing and SWT. It is very simple to use and has lots of documentation. Since MiG Layout is 100% free...
9 replies - 9013 views - 12/17/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements
According to Josh Marinacci of Sun on a Java Posse thread: "We (Sun) have an early release of an Eclipse plugin for JavaFX up on Kenai."
Please...
0 replies - 5749 views - 12/12/08 by Jim Weaver in Announcements
In the first post of this Simple Calculator App series, we took some baby steps toward creating a simple calculator. We're using the comp, shown below, that...
9 replies - 5082 views - 12/11/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
This year I had to miss Devoxx 2008, but really wanted to go. Not only is it a great conference, but this year it is the first major conference since the...
1 replies - 3844 views - 12/10/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
The long awaited 1.0 release of the JavaFX SDK is available, so I'd like to help you get up to speed by building an application with you. Some upcoming...
12 replies - 12561 views - 12/08/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
Want to get up to speed quickly on the JavaFX Script language? Weiqi Gao of Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has written an excellent article that covers the...
0 replies - 4991 views - 12/02/08 by Jim Weaver in Announcements
I've often mentioned the importance of programmers and graphics designers working together to create great looking RIAs. The declarative syntax of JavaFX...
5 replies - 5055 views - 11/26/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
Yes, that's a bold statement, but I've waited 13 years to be able to say it. If you've followed my blog or have heard me speak about JavaFX, you know that I...
16 replies - 4625 views - 11/25/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
