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Coding for fun: An experiment with Virtual Threads, JavaFX, and Music
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 …
JavaFX Links of December 2024
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 …
JavaFX In Action #13 with Jago de Vreede about SDKman UI, a user interface on top of SDKMAN for all platforms
Jago de Vreede is bringing SDKMAN to Windows! He builds a user interface on top of the terminal tool to make it easier to use, and add the same time solves the problem that you …
JavaFX In Action #12 with Steve Hannah about jDeploy, to distribute your Java app as a native bundle
Building a Java(FX) app is easy and fun, but how do you efficiently distribute it to different systems? jpackage and GraalVM can help, but jDeploy makes things even more effortless …
JavaFX In Action #11 with Almas Baim about FXGL, a multipurpose game library for JavaFX
In the “JFX In Action” interviews, we already saw many business use cases of JavaFX. Let’s take a side step and look at game development. FXGL is a library that …
TVH IT Talk, links of the talk Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project
These are the links of the presentation “Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project” of Thursday December 5th at the TVH IT Talks 2024 in …
JavaFX Links of November 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of November 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have …
How Organizations Became Stuck on Outdated Java Versions
My recent blog post “Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization” triggered quit some reactions… I went a step further and asked on social …
JavaFX In Action #10 with Clément de Tastes about QuarkusFX, combining the strengths of Quarkus and JavaFX
In the previous “JFX In Action” interviews, we already saw combinations of JavaFX with Scala and Kotlin. In this episode, we look at the combination of JavaFX and …
JFall NL, 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 Thursday November 7th, 16:55-17:45, Room 2.
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 …
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 …