JavaFX In Action #9 with Özkan Pakdil about Swaggerific, an open-source Postman alternative written in JavaFX
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.
About Özkan
Özkan Pakdil is a seasoned full-stack developer with over 15 years of experience, deeply rooted in both back-end and front-end technologies. His expertise spans from Varnish cache servers and New Relic to Node.js, Quarkus, Micronaut, Rust, Java, JavaFX,…
You can find him on LinkedIn and Mastodon.
About Swaggerific
Özkan decided to create an open-source alternative to Postman. He didn’t have much experience yet with JavaFX and decided to use this project to learn more about it. The tool can open a Swagger URL and displays a tree view with the available calls. In the UI you can define paramaters and get a nice visual representation of the JSON output.
Özkan is looking for people to join the project! Let him know if you want to contribute to the development of Swaggerific. There are still many parts throwing a “not implemented exception” waiting for you ;-)
You can find the sources on GitHub.
Video content
00:00 Who is Özkan?
01:29 About the start of swaggerific
02:26 Demo of swaggerific
04:26 Advantages of Java and JavaFX
08:01 Future plans, paying back to the community
09:24 DockFX Maven library
11:20 Shout out to JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA