In my “Java on Single Board Computers” series, I already published several posts and videos in which I unpack the board, connect it for the first time, and try to install and run some simple Java code. In this post, I want to share some benchmarks of Java on these boards to get a better idea of the performance we can expect from Java on these platforms.

Every week I collect a list of posts, social messages, videos, etc. related to JavaFX on the JFX Central Links Of The Week. One of the regular “appearances” is Helal Anwar, who is building impressive educational tools with JavaFX. In this interview, we discuss his GradedAttendance application and other JavaFX projects he’s working on.

After my initial struggles with the BeagleV-Fire in a previous video, I succeeded in getting Java 25 running on RISC-V-powered BeagleV-Fire! Let me walk you through the journey and the steps I took to make it work.

As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve asked various suppliers to send me evaluation boards. I already published these:

Every week I collect a list of posts, social messages, videos, etc. related to JavaFX on the JFX Central Links Of The Week. That’s how I recently found a message from Lidiany Cerqueira on LinkedIn about CERCA. It’s a tool she created during her Christmas break to detect false/hallucinated references in scientific manuscripts.

Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of January 2026. 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.

These are the links from the jChampions Conference online talk, on January 27, 2026: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the Raspberry Pi”.

As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve asked various suppliers to send me evaluation boards. I already published about two and adding a third one now:

As I shared in previous posts, I want to learn and experiment more with different types of single-board computers in 2026. But I also want to keep them organized and easily accessible. Following the Clean Desk Policy (CDP) in my little home-office also keeps my mind clean :-)

As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on Single Board Computers and RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve been asking various suppliers to send me evaluation boards. After testing the LattePanda IOTA, I received two boards from OrangePi to evaluate: the OrangePi 5 Ultra (ARM) and the OrangePi RV2 (RISC-V).