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• J-Fall 2008

  I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG . J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:17 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX, NLJUG, Flex, Jazz

• JavaFX: coming soon now

  Finally, a ship date is set for JavaFX: the new UI toolkit from Sun, designed to go head to head with Flash and Silverlight. December 2nd (2008) is the date that JavaFX 1.0 final will be shipped. Sun will also announce some other news regarding the future Read More... Posted Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:46 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX

• Java 6 update 10 available

  Without a lot of buzz, Sun released update 10 of Java 6 yesterday on the download page . Update 10 brings a lot of improvements I've written about before and is the base release for the JavaFX framework. Update 10 also has a consumer download for Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 8:06 AM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX

• The battle of the screens

  Adobe today launched the Flash Player 10 beta player. See some demo videos on some new features, notably 3D and the "weird text layout" support, which is great because the Flash text layouting really could use a tune-up. Adobe also launched Read More... Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 8:53 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, Rich Client, JavaFX, Flex

• Java 6 update N beta available

  At JavaOne 2007 Sun announced that it would do a Java 6 "refresh" release, geared at improving the Java desktop experience. After several other codenames this release is now named " Java SE 6 Update 10 ". This release is pretty substantial: Read More... Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:52 AM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, Swing, JavaFX