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

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of April 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via links@jfx-central.com.

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.

Do you know the problem that you have done a specific task already many times in the past, but it’s too long ago to remember exactly how you did it the previous times? One of those cases for me, is how you create a JavaFX ComboBox and configure it to show a specific field of an object in the opened and closed state of the ComboBox.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of March 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via links@jfx-central.com.

Brian has a dream job! He is responsible for a complex system that allows scientific researchers to research the animals living in the deep sea. He provides them with the tools to annotate videos and images made by submarines diving thousands of meters deep in the oceans. While he works on this software, he gets to know all the amazing creatures living in this mysterious world.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of February 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via links@jfx-central.com.

Out of frustration about the existing (expensive) tools to interact with Kafka clusters, Cormac Redmond created his own beautiful tool that he shares for free!

Chris Newland has a long history in Java and JavaFX development. I invited him to talk about two of his JavaFX projects: DemoFX and JITWatch. While the demos are already impressive, Chris also gives a “crash course” in this video about Java and Byte code and how the Just-In-Time compiler converts these to native code in the Java Virtual Machine.

Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) is a JDK project, initiated by Azul. With CRaC, you can start Java programs with a shorter time to first transaction, combined with less time and resources to achieve full code speed. This is achieved by taking a snapshot (checkpoint) of a fully warmed-up Java process and launching one or more new JVMs from that snapshot.