JavaFX

Enterprise JavaFX

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:45:00 EDT

This article is also posted on JavaLobby.com This is a guest post by Anton Polyakov. Anton is Senior Developer at Exadel, he describes our experience building a JavaFX front end for a Seam booking application. JavaFX is new tool set for developing and delivering Rich Internet Applications or RIAs. JavaFX 1.0 was released in December [...]

JavaFX Server-Side Push Demo

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:30:00 EDT

Check out this cool screen shot of our JavaFX server-side push demo. The back-end is Seam. Server-side push is implemented with Flamingo. You can drag and drop servers into the rectangles to get live updates. We will be showing this demo at JBoss World 2009 in Chicago in September. I’ll try to record [...]

Enterprise JavaFX

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:30:00 EDT

You can now view or download and deploy one of the first real enterprise JavaFX application. We took the popular Seam booking demo application and created JavaFX UI for it. The JavaFX side is connected to Seam via Flamingo RIA framework. View online You can view and run the application by going to this URL: http://demo.flamingo.exadel.com/booking/. You will also see JSF/RichFaces and Flex versions of the application. All instances are connected to the same Seam back-end. Once you register, you can use the same name/password information to login using any other user interface.

What Could You Do with Your Code in 20 Lines or Less?

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:30:00 EDT

What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head. Here are a few more cool iRules from the forums. This week I’ve included one of the simplest, shortest iRules to ever make the 20LoL. It just struck me as something quite useful that I’m willing to bet several people will look at and say “oh, that’s handy” despite the fact that it’s not complex or long. Keep the code coming.

Simplify Calling ASP.NET AJAX Services From jQuery

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EDT

As jQuery’s popularity in the .NET community has risen over the past year, one recurring theme I’ve seen is the desire to refactor away the details of using it to call ASP.NET AJAX services. Whether through helper function or specialized jQuery plugin, I’ve seen numerous methods proposed and/or in use. Personally, the syntax never bothered me. The contentType parameter is ugly, but I have a Visual Studio code snippet for the $.ajax call and rarely think about it.

New JavaFX Community Site Launched

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Stephen Chin has launched a new web site to help grow JavaFX community, JFXtras - an open forum for the entire JavaFX community. Check it out here. Stephen is also the author of JavaFX Dzone Refcard.

Ellison at JavaOne: Myths About JavaFX, Android, and J2ME

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:50:00 EDT

At JavaOne, Larry Ellison has made some very encouraging statements about Oracle’s commitments to Java, JavaFX, and the mobile developer market. It is certainly good news that Oracle (i.e., Larry) sees the significance of the Java platform in its integrality. However, there are many misunderstandings about the relationship between Java, JavaFX, and Android that even confuse the new Java owner. Here are some clarifications.

Sun’s JavaOne 2009: Business As Usual

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:15:00 EDT

New product announcements this year included JavaFX 1.2, which includes new cross platform User Interface (UI) controls, faster application start-up, streaming media support and other performance enhancements across desktop, browser and mobile.

JavaOne 2009 - Highlights Live from Day One

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:45:00 EDT

JavaOne 2009 officially started with the opening Keynote delivered by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. The keynote included several announcements and demos presented by partners and customers of Sun. Here are some highlights...

There's Still a Ton Going On at Sun: Sun CEO

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz it "has the potential to deliver the world's largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX."

Juan Carlos Soto Reaffirms Sun Microsystems’ Commitment to the Cloud

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:37:00 EDT

As I noted at the time, Sun’s recent announcements with respect to Cloud Computing were sadly rather overshadowed by the torrent of interest around a piece on the Wall Street Journal site the same day, which broke the news that acquisition talks were allegedly underway between Sun and IBM. Much has changed since then and we [...]

Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0.- Part I

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST

The goal of this article is to demo a sample Pet Store application written in JavaFX 1.0. I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development tool for creating all these Web pages connecting to the server side applications written in Java.

AJAX and Enterprise RIA Tools - JSF, Flex, and JavaFX

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:45:00 EDT

2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? The number of different frameworks and libraries is too vast to even consider evaluating a fraction of them.

Borland Finally Dumps CodeGear Tools Division

Tue, 13 May 2008 06:45:00 EDT

It's only taken Borland two years but it's finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible for Borland's hereditary JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder lines as well as its new web ventures into PHP and Ruby, said to be used by 7.5 million developers. Embarcadero Technologies is buying it for about $23 million and the transaction's supposed to close in 30-60 days. Thomas Cressey Bravo the private equity house that bought Embarcadero and took it private last year, is fronting the money.

JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 EDT

There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June 2008. As the interpreted version of JavaFX was the prototype for the compiled version, the javafx.ui classes are the prototype for the javafx.gui classes that were shown at JavaOne and will be released in the SDK. These javafx.gui libraries will have a streamlined, faster performing API, as well as support for multimedia. In June, JavaFX will have turned a significant corner, out of the prototype stage and becoming more mature.

A New Weapon in Developing Rich Client Applications

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST

JavaFX is a scripting language that provides more powerful client applications in term of features for the user interface experience as well as being incorporated with server platform technology such as RMI, Web Services, and EJB. Its ability to reuse all Java libraries opens an opportunity for JavaFX to create flexibility and ease the integration and reuse of existing Java applications.

Compiled JavaFX Script Applet - Happy Holidays!

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST

To wish you Happy Holidays (and if you'll permit me, a very merry Christmas) I wrote this Compiled JavaFX Script Applet (that executes in a browser). For fast deployment I used the latest version of Java SE 6 Update 10 (formerly known as Java SE Update N, formerly known as Consumer JRE, formerly known as Prince.

Playing with UI Features in Compiled JavaFX Script

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:45:00 EST

As I've mentioned before, compiled JavaFX Script is currently under development, and one of the last pieces of the puzzle is the UI features. Currently there are a few UI features that are operational in the compiled version, for example Frame, BorderPanel and Button. Fortunately, the user interface API (widgets and 2D graphics) is almost identical to interpreted JavaFX Script, as is the declarative scripting.

Developing Your First Compiled JavaFX Script Program

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:45:00 EST

The next JavaFX Puzzler will be posted at 18:00 GMT (1:00PM EST) on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. It will be a compiled JavaFX Script puzzler, so you'll need to build the JavaFX Script Compiler in order to participate in the Puzzler. To help prepare you for the Puzzler, I'd like to you to develop a very basic 'Hello World' style program.

How To Develop and Run a JavaFX Script Program Using JavaFXPad

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EST

There are several environments in which you can develop and run JavaFX Script programs. I'd like to help you become a JavaFX Script programmer in the next few minutes, so I'm going to show you the fastest route that I know of to get there, which includes using a tool that Sun created called JavaFXPad.

Closures in Compiled JavaFX Script

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EST

One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures. In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the local variables of the outer function. This feature is enabled by the fact that in compiled JavaFX Script, functions are first-class objects, which provides the ability to assign functions to variables and to pass functions as arguments to other functions.

JavaOne - JavaFX abuzz

Wed, 09 May 2007 20:15:00 EDT

I'm at JavaOne this week, where the talk from Sun is all about mobile, or JavaFX and JavaFX Script. I'm not sure the world needs another scripting language, but then what do I know? I know it's a bit off-topic, but the thing that struck me about JavaOne this year is just how busy it is. I didn't hear any numbers yet, but there are a lot of people here. And, more surprisingly to me at least, is that the product pavilion is packed with people. I would have thought that in this day and age, the old trade show formula would be getting old by now, but I guess not. Maybe it's the t-shirts and trade show tchotchkes. But whatever brings them here, I guess people still like to see products close up and personal.

Client-Side Java: Rolling Out JavaFX at JavaOne

Wed, 09 May 2007 17:15:00 EDT

JavaOne opens today and it'll be interesting to hear more about this renewed interest of Sun in Java on the client. While James Gosling and Rich Green have already provided some details on JavaFX

How AJAX Works

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:30:00 EST

When I was learning how to work with AJAX, I went through a number of 101-type articles. The biggest problem with these tutorials is that the authors are trying to explain several things at once, which is confusing. I'll try to offer you a very simple example of an Ajax application.

KISS + Swing = RAD

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:00:00 EST

Java is a great language for developing enterprise applications. It's powerful, scalable, robust, secure, and typically very complex. As a software developer, I want to solve business problems, not spend man-months building the plumbing for my applications. This article will demonstrate how you can speed up the development and simplify the maintenance of enterprise-class Swing applications by keeping things simple. We'll look at ways to reduce the complexity of your application and the amount of custom code written for it. By limiting the complexity and the amount of plumbing code required, you'll develop more quickly, the application will be easier to maintain, and you can focus on the business logic that provides value to the customer.

How to Create Secure Web Applications with Struts

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:00:00 EST

Imagine building a house starting with only a pile of timber and a lump of iron, or making a bowl of spaghetti from a sack of wheat and a bag of tomatoes. The importance of having the right materials makes the idea of building products from scratch seem absurd. Similarly, any software project that doesn't take advantage of the numerous frameworks available for any manner of development activity could be wasting valuable resources and ignoring established best practices.