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  • JavaFX 1.2 example: Folder Visualizer

    Last year I blogged about a small JavaFX project I implemented called Folder-Visualizer. The tool lets you find large files and directories to effectively clean your hard disk. The previous version of the tool was implemented with an early beta of JavaFX...
    Published 17-08-2009 16:22 by Paulb
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  • JavaFx Charts

    One of the really cool things in the JavaFx 1.2 release are the addition of Charts. The charts look great but the documentation is far from sufficient. So I wrote down this post to help out a little. Pie chart Lets start with a pie chart. The most important...
    Published 10-07-2009 16:03 by Paulb
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  • JavaOne - JavaFX 1.2 released

    JavaFX 1.2 is available now and I'm very impressed. First of all, I didn't expect any release before the end of this year. I was hoping for a preview/beta release here at JavaOne with new components and layout managers. Instead there is a full...
    Published 04-06-2009 22:27 by Paulb
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  • JavaOne day one - JDK 7, JEE 6, JavaFX 1.2 and an appstore

    The first general session started with some exiting news. JDK 7, JEE 6 and JavaFX 1.2 are available now. Surprising, because half of the JEE 6 specs are not final yet and JDK 7 is far from finished. Later on the day the announcement doesn't quite...
    Published 03-06-2009 19:41 by Paulb
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  • JavaFX Christmas greeting

    I made a JavaFX version of the Christmas card from my company. Basically I separated the picture into four parts, and made each part clickable. When you click, it will zoom in. Simple, but it looks ok. At this moment I can't directly post applets...
    Published 21-12-2008 23:06 by Paulb
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  • Live from Devoxx - Keynote and Parallel programming

    Keynote and Concurrent programming. The first keynote was all about JavaFX. Since it's just released last week this was probably the first big presentation of it. Because I've followed JavaFX really really closely for the past months, I didn't...
    Published 10-12-2008 14:35 by Paulb
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  • First JavaFX 1.0 example

    After some more playing with the new JavaFX release I put together an example of an application that can be used to search for books at Amazon. Not really exiting, but it shows the new webservices API and creating simple custom components such as a button...
    Published 05-12-2008 23:34 by Paulb
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  • The JavaFX release - A first look

    Today JavaFX is officially released. I've been hitting my browser's refresh button a million times today just really wanting to see what they did with the website and wanting to try the release. At first sight the website looks simple but really...
    Published 04-12-2008 23:23 by Paulb
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  • JavaFX preview released

    The JavaFX Preview is release today, just in time to make the time frame of July as announced at JavaOne this year. Congratulations to the development team :-) I just had a look at the release, and while it's not completely finished yet, it shows...
    Published 31-07-2008 23:34 by Paulb
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  • Folder Visualizer: A JavaFX and Adobe AIR comparison

    Introduction The last few weeks, Jamie Craane and I have been working on a small but usefull tool called Folder Visualizer. The idea of this tool is that it can scan your harddrive and make a visual representation of where the largest directories are...
    Published 27-06-2008 9:14 by Paulb
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  • JavaPolis day 4

    General session Adobe must have been happy with today's general session. We started the morning with another session from Bruce Eckel and James Ward about Flex. I saw most of it already in their university session earlier this week, but all of it...
    Published 15-12-2007 11:13 by Paulb
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  • JavaPolis day 2

    Session 1 – Thinking in Flex I started the second day with a session about Adobe Flex, presented by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. I really enjoyed the session, not only because the topic is interesting but also because Bruce and James are very entertaining...
    Published 12-12-2007 0:30 by Paulb
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  • Running JavaFX from Eclipse

    After the big announcement at JavaOne about JavaFX, I thought it’s time to give it a try. There is an Eclipse plugin available that helps creating JavaFX applications. Because I found some people having trouble getting the plugin to run, I wrote...
    Published 13-05-2007 14:12 by Paulb
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