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.

Every week I collect JavaFX-related content for the JFX Central Links Of The Week. Last week I saw a video on LinkedIn, shared by Abdoulaye Wade Cissé, of a JavaFX “virtual laboratorium” and wanted to learn more about this project… Turns out he is a 22-year old student in Senegal, creating an amazing project to provide a virtual laboratory as software where the resources are not available for a physical lab. With his project, he proves that Java and JavaFX is the ideal way to generate fully free software with a lot of functionality.

Sven Reimers created a JavaFX-based notebook application to make it easier to learn Java and experiment with notebooks that can visualize the variables in different ways like tables and graphs.

Here is the first overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth for 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.

Mike Hearn solves a problem that a lot of developers are struggling with: how to easily distribute your application and make sure the users get the latest version. With Conveyor he created a tool to do that easily with JavaFX, Electron, and Flutter apps!

In this post you’ll learn how you can run a Java application on a Raspberry Pi Zero 1 to turn it in a controllable HDMI camera. I use such cameras in my setup with an ATEM Mini Pro HDMI video switcher. This allows me to have four different inputs for a very affordable price to create videos, tutorials, virtual conference talks, etc. As I wanted to be able to easily change the zoom level of these Raspberry Pi cameras, I created a small Java application with an API.

When a nerdy dad and 14-year-old music-playing son join forces and start experimenting with music and code, some nice things can happen. Did you ever present your music piece in a business dashboard with charts? Did you know that the FXGL game library can be used to generate a piano with fireworks? And can Virtual Threads playback MIDI events with just a few lines of code and thousands of threads?

Here is the last overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth for 2024. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. We hope you enjoyed all the previous editions and we promise to go on in the next year… Have a nice holiday and see you in 2025!