These are the links of the presentation “Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project” of Thursday December 5th at the TVH IT Talks 2024 in Waregem.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of November 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. 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.

My recent blog post “Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization” triggered quit some reactions… I went a step further and asked on social media: “Why is your company still on Java 8 (or older)? And why did you never move to 9, 10,… and got stuck on this outdated version?” Here is a summary of what I learned from the reactions.

In the previous “JFX In Action” interviews, we already saw combinations of JavaFX with Scala and Kotlin. In this episode, we look at the combination of JavaFX and Quarkus. Thanks to QuarkusFX, we can use the many advantages of the Quarkus system to create a desktop application.

These are the links of the presentation “Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads” of Thursday November 7th, 16:55-17:45, Room 2.

The following “JFX In Action” interview gives insights into a new open-source JavaFX project: Swaggerific. It’s created by Özkan Pakdil, who tells us more about this Postman alternative to interact with REST endpoints documented with a Swagger JSON.

When I spoke to developers at Devoxx in Belgium in October, I was surprised to learn how many of them are maintaining systems that are still running on Java 8 (released in 2014). One of them even still has a Java 5 application in production, with a runtime of 20 years old!

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of October 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. With some very nice new content for JFX Central itself, see at end of the list… 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.

Here is the next “JFX In Action” with Ulas Ergin. He explains how his team uses JavaFX to migrate from a Swing based application, to a Java application which combines the old Swing screens with new React user interfaces.

These are the links of the presentation “Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads” of Wednesday October 9th, 16:40-17:30, Room 7.