Earlier this month, I released V0.0.1 of my new Java library to interact with DMX512 devices using (optionally) the Open Fixture Library (OFL). After some more experimenting, I’m able to announce the next (beta) release V0.0.2 with the following major changes:

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In this post, I would like to inform you about a new Java library that is now available on Maven Central, allowing interaction with DMX512 devices using (optionally) the Open Fixture Library (OFL). I also published a video with a code walkthrough of my test setup and demo code.

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Originally posted on the Pi4J website.

Dieter Holz was experimenting with Pi4J V3 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2. Because this version requires Java 21 or newer, he upgraded his OS to a newer Java version and found out that no Java code could be executed. He tried with Java 21 and 24, and neither worked correctly, although Java 17 runs without problems.

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Dirk Lemmermann has created many open source and commercial libraries for Java Swing and JavaFX like CalenderFX, FlexGanttFX, GemsFX,… He is also the founder of JFX Central, the home to anything JavaFX related. In this interview he shows us some of his work, including applications used in companies, revealing the power of JavaFX to build custom tools.

I’m proud of every podcast I create for the Friends Of OpenJDK website (Foojay.io), but I want to highlight episode #71 here…

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Gerrit Grunwald, also known in the Java community as HanSolo on social media, created many JavaFX libraries and blog posts. I wanted to talk with him about his work with JavaFX, but I also learned more about SVGs and how the garbage collectors in the JVM work, thanks to the amazing visualizations he creates with … JavaFX of course.