Java tutorials, experiments, and real-world projects by Frank Delporte, Java Champion, Technical Writer at Azul, and lead maintainer of Pi4J.

Whether you're running Java on a Raspberry Pi, building desktop UIs with JavaFX, exploring RISC-V single-board computers, or diving into JVM internals — you're in the right place.

Topics: Java, JavaFX, Lottie4J, Pi4J, Java on Single-Board Computers, and much more...

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JavaFX Links of October 2024

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.

Deep dive into bits, bytes, shorts, ints, longs, signed, and unsigned with Java

On the Pi4J discussion list, someone recently asked what the best and easiest way is in Java to convert a byte value. In Java, there is no distinction between signed and unsigned bytes, which can be confusing. My book “Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi” contains an explanation about this, and I am happy to share it in this post with some more info and code examples…

JavaFX with Kotlin versus Java

Recently I have been experimenting with the combination of JavaFX and Kotlin. As Kotlin also runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and is a very close sister of Java, the switch is straightforward. I’m not making full use of what Kotlin can offer (non-blocking coroutines for example) as this is still a learning path for me… But I want to show you in this tutorial the difference in code style.

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