Entries Tagged 'JavaFx' ↓

Interview with Jim Weaver

IndicThreads.com has an interview with JavaFx guru, Jim Weaver. It’s a good interview outlining why somebody would want to learn JavaFx instead of, or in addition to, Swing.

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Full Screen Animation with Transparency in JavaFx

Sergey Surikov has a great tutorial today on JavaLobby/DZone on writing a JavaFx application that takes advantage of a full-screen animation as well as transparency. Very cool effects! If you’re writing JavaFx applications, these are definitely tools you’ll want to add to your toolbox.

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Chet Haase on Java

InfoQ has Chet Haase’s presentation from QCon posted on their website. Chet (of the Filthy Rich Clients fame) talks about Update N (previously called the consumer JRE… basically an update to Java 6), JavaFx, and speculates on Java 7. He also spends a bit of time going over improvements for desktop applications in Java 6.

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JavaFx tutorial on developerWorks

This one is a few days old, but there is a nice JavaFx tutorial by Cathy Kegley and Greg Roberts up on IBM’s developerWorks.

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