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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 …

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 …
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 …
Foojay Podcast #60: Proud Of Belgium – Devoxx, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymeleaf, and htmx
Belgium is a small country, but the Java community here punches far above its weight. During Devoxx in Antwerp we grabbed the microphone and walked around to meet the makers behind …
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 …
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 …

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 …