Jim Weaver’s Rich-Client Java Blog

ZenPongFX Example from the Pro JavaFX 2 Platform Book

My co-authors (Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Johan Vos, tech reviewer Carl Dea) and I are pleased to report that the Pro JavaFX 2 Platform book is on track to ship by 15 February, 2012.

To give you a sample from the book, I've placed the source code for the ZenPongFX application from Chapter 2 in the ZenPongFX Home Page.  That page also contains a Java Web Start link to the application. 

Enjoy!
Jim Weaver

Adding a Tag Cloud to ConferenceBrowserFX

ConferenceBrowserFX, featured in an earlier blog post, is an application that leverages a REST API common to Devoxx and Jfokus.  Its purpose is to provide a UI that enables the user to quickly find sessions of interest.

As shown in the screen shot above, I've added a tag cloud to the application, so if you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to ConferenceBrowserFX.com and try it out via the Java Web Start link.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

JavaFX 2.0 Mentoring with Jim Weaver

Lately I've been receiving requests for JavaFX 2.0 mentoring, and am happy to announce that I'm now providing mentoring and training services. Please contact me at jim.weaver @ javafxpert.com if you'd like to schedule a JavaFX mentoring session.  My rates are currently 1500 USD per day (plus travel & lodging).  You can avoid the travel & lodging fees by coming to the Indianapolis area for your JavaFX mentoring session.

I look forward to helping you get up to speed on JavaFX! 

Regards,
Jim Weaver 

Featured Testimonial:

"My mentoring session with Jim Weaver was consultative, educational and productive.  Jim excels in giving great advice while explaining concepts in a clear, get to the point manner.  His teach-by-example method using both my code and my use cases, provided perfect grounding for my JavaFX development while producing actual code that I can use in my data-as-a-service startup.  Overall, a tremendous experience."

Bob Namestka
Founder/Chief Simplicity Officer, ScreamingData

ConferenceBrowserFX: View the Jfokus 2012 schedule with this JavaFX 2.0 app

Fellow Java Champion and Jfokus conference organizer Mattias Karlsson inquired whether a conference schedule app written in JavaFX exists.  There are actually two: One of these Arun Gupta and Stephen Chin have developed as an example end-to-end application in conjunction with Glassfish.  The other one, ConferenceBrowserFX, is featured in this blog post.  This application leverages a REST API common to Devoxx and Jfokus to provide a UI that enables the user to quickly find sessions of interest.  I'd appreciate any input that you have on the application, so if you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to the ConferenceBrowserFX Home Page and try it out via the Java Web Start link.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

Java Spotlight Episode 61: Jim Weaver, Java Champion, on Java FX 2.0

I was recently interviewed by Roger Brinkley for the Java Spotlight Episode 61 podcast.  The topic of the interview was JavaFX 2.0, and I hope you enjoy it.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

Brief JavaFX 2.0 Video Interview from JavaOne Latin America

Here's a brief (five-minute) JavaFX 2.0 video interview that I did from JavaOne Latin America 2011 last week.

Regards,

Jim Weaver
jim.weaver @ javafxpert.com 

Thanks William Antônio Siqueira for Translating the Return of Rich-Client Java Presentation to Portuguese

Just a quick note of thanks to William Antônio Siqueira for translating The Return of Rich-Client Java presentation that I gave at JavaOne Latin America on 06-Dec-2011 in São Paulo, Brazil to Portuguese.  The presentation engine was developed in Java/JavaFX, and uses FXML for expressing the content.  If you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to the Return of Rich-Client Java Home Page and try it out via the Java Web Start link.  If your locale is set to Portuguese/Brazil, you'll see William's handiwork.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

The "Return of Rich-Client Java" Presentation at JavaOne Latin America

I'm looking forward to presenting The Return of Rich-Client Java at JavaOne Latin America on 06-Dec-2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.  The presentation engine was developed in Java/JavaFX, and uses FXML for expressing the content.  If you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to the Return of Rich-Client Java Home Page and try it out via the Java Web Start link.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

TweetBrowser: A JavaFX 2.0 Example App

For an upcoming article, I plan to walk through a JavaFX 2.0 example application that I've named TweetBrowser.  This application leverages the Twitter REST API to provide a browser-style interface to the user for navigating tweets.  I'd appreciate any input that you have on the application, so if you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to the TweetBrowser Home Page and try it out via the Java Web Start link.

Regards,
Jim Weaver

EarthCubeFX on JavaFX 2.0 from OSCON/Java 2011 Keynote (w/code download)

During the JavaFX keynote at OSCON/Java a few days ago I demonstrated the the EarthCubeFX application ported to JavaFX 2.0.  In the session I promised to make the code available on my blog, so here is a link from which you can download the EarthCubeX project (for NetBeans IDE).  Some helpful tips:

• After downloading the ZIP file, expand the project into a directory of your choice.  
• Start NetBeans, and select the File -> Open Project menu.From the Open Project dialog box, 
• Navigate to your chosen directory and open the EarthCubeX project.  If you receive a message dialog stating that the jfxrt.jar file can't be found, click the Resolve button and navigate to the rt/lib folder subordinate to where you installed the JavaFX 2.0 SDK. 
• Note: You can obtain the NetBeans IDE from the NetBeans site.

Also, although JavaFX 2.0 for Mac OS will be released after JavaFX 2.0 for Windows is released, it doesn't seem to be far behind, as this video of EarthCube on an early access version of JavaFX for Mac OS demonstrates.

Regards,

Jim Weaver