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Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization
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). …

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 …
JavaFX In Action #8 with Ulas Ergin: How JavaFX helps to migrate from Swing to React UIs, all combined in one Java app
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 …
Devoxx BE, links of the talk Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads
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.
Template project to build a JavaFX application as a JAR with dependencies with Maven
Recently, I was asked what the best way is to build a Fat JAR (a JAR with all dependencies) using Maven. Therefore, I created a GitHub project javafx-jar-template that you can use …
JavaFX In Action #7 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 …

JavaFX Links of September 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of September 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have …
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 …
JavaFX In Action #6 with Ramiro Domínguez Ayub about the Televic Generic Update Tool (TGUT)
In the next “JFX In Action”, I’m returning to Televic, one of my former employers, to talk to Ramiro Domínguez Ayub. He explains how they create a tool with …
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 …
JavaFX In Action #5 with Maciej Gorywoda about FxCalculator, an Android app built with Scala and JavaFX
In the next video in this “JFX In Action” series, I talked with Maciej Gorywoda about FxCalculator, an Android app created with Scala and JavaFX you can find in Google …
How we almost missed a plane in Kazakhstan, but OpenJDK could have saved us...
In August, our family vacation brought us to Kazakhstan. An important trip, as it is the birth country of our (now) 14y son. It was over 13 years that we had been there and we …
First experiments with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
I’m one of those people with boxes full of devices, waiting to be used in experiments… And from time to time, I dive into those boxes to fill in the gaps in between …

JavaFX Links of August 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of August 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included …

JavaFX Links of July 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of July 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month.
JavaFX Nodes versus Canvas
Last week I was working on a blog post about Azul Zulu with JavaFX support for ARM systems, like the Raspberry Pi. As you can see in this video , I found out my little test …

JavaFX Links of June 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of June 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month.
JavaFX In Action #4 with Robert Ladstätter about LogoRRR, a cross-platform log analysis tool
In the next video in this “JFX In Action” series, I talked with Robert Ladstätter about LogoRRR, an application written with Scala and JavaFX.
Links of the BeJUG Presentation: Lessons Learned from #JavaOnRaspberryPi
These are all the links of my presentation at BeJUG in Waregem, Monday, July 24, 2024 .
JavaFX In Action #3 with Christopher Schnick about XPipe, an app to manage all your servers
In the next video in this “JFX In Action” series, I talked with Christopher Schnick about XPipe, a tool to manage all your servers.