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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 things are really  coming together now. I'm also happily surprised to see the Netbeans ...

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 located on the harddisk. This is most useful when cleaning up space. The project is available ...

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 the Open Screen Project, which basically means they want to drop licensing costs in ...

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: A new deployment toolkit that enables correct detection of Java installation version ...

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 keeps impressing me. What I didn’t see yet before is what Flex can do with offline clients ...

Session 1 – Thinking in FlexI 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 speakers. The fun thing is that they do actually really present together, instead of both ...

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 this small post to help out. You can use Eclipse’s update function to download the plugin ...

After some sleep, a big breakfast and loads of coffee it was time for day 2 of the JavaOne. Today's morning session was done by Oracle. Like usual Oracle did some cool scripted demo's that showed how to create a complex SOA/AJAX application by using drag & drop. Demonstrated on tools that are basically nightly builds of a technical ...

This day, the JavaOne conference started for real. Sun like usual opened with some major announcements saved for the occasion. The open source Java project is now fully live, all the code is now available. Real Time Java is available, bringing a full fledged real-time solution for Java, which is accurate enough to control supersonic aircraft. ...