JavaFX In Action with Christoph Schwentker about JabRef
Here is the next “JFX In Action” with Christoph Schwentker about JabRef, a tool written in Java and JavaFX to collect, organize, and discover literature for research projects.
About Christoph
Christoph Schwentker is a (Kotlin) software developer at System Integration Laboratory GmbH (SIL) in Germany. He is one of the main maintainers of the JabRef project.
You can find him on LinkedIn.
About JabRef
JabRef was founded in 2003 and has since been used by many students and researchers. Its mission is to advance knowledge and improve scientific research. JabRef values open access to information and believes modern science can be built on an open institutional structure. JabRef is developed as free, open-source software and saves your data in a simple text-based file format with no vendor lock-in.
Links:
- JabRef website
- JabRef sources on GitHub
- JabRef on Mastodon
- JabRef on Twitter/X
- JPackage and JLink flow
Video content
00:00 Who is Christoph?
00:22 What is JabRef?
02:34 Different code needed for all search sources
03:37 Demo of JabRef
04:31 Open-source project team
05:21 Advantages of JavaFX
07:47 Building as desktop app with GitHub Actions
09:37 Using the latest JavaFX version
11:01 Plans for the future
13:12 About custom styling
14:37 About JLink and JDeploy