What do you want? (in future JavaFX posts :-)

Now that our Pro JavaFX book is available as an Apress Alpha (early access) eBook, and while we're waiting for JavaFX 1.5, I have a question for you: "What kinds of JavaFX posts would you like to see on this blog"?

JavaFX has gained a lot of momentum, and there are now lots of resources available (e.g. javafx.com, JavaFX books, and bloggers' posts).  Please leave a comment on the kinds of posts that you'd like to see.  For example, I asked the same question on Twitter.  Here are a couple of example replies:

"As we get closer to javafx tv and a third consumer of javafx common profile, perhaps articles pointed in the direction of using profiles.  Customers all the time ask me about fine tuning for mobile vs. fine tuning for desktop, graphic assets, and so on..."

"Tutorials, how-to's for building web based mashups, component posts, oh and 1 Java is dead post every month"

By the way, my reply to that one was "Neither Java, nor Paul, is dead :-)"

Here are some additional ideas that I've had, but would really like your feedback so that this blog provides value to you in the area of JavaFX development:

• JavaFX puzzlers.  These could range from simple questions to short coding exercises.  Now that the Pro JavaFX book is available as an Alpha eBook, I could give a free download token to the winner of a given puzzler (as I did with the earlier JavaFX Script book).
• JavaFX tips and tricks.  These would be focused at JavaFX developers who would like to gain exposure to lesser known, but valuable, JavaFX techniques.  Often, a "tips and tricks" post would be an intro and link to another blogger''s post.  For example, I saw a very cool post today from Rakesh Menon about using custom fonts in JavaFX.
• Progressive development of small examples that teach particular JavaFX concepts.
• Juicy JavaFX rumors :-)

So, what Ideas do you have?  Please leave a comment.

Regards,

Jim Weaver
JavaFXpert.com

Comments

[Ville Määttä]

Seam integration, JavaFX as a view tech for Seam backend.

[Ghadi Shayban]

I bought your alpha book, and I'm going through it now. I would love to see something covered about performance, specifically

1. Minimizing CPU % usage
2. Startup/animation performance

I think #2 will get much better in version 1.5 and later, but it is very interesting for people who are trying to build larger clients. And #1 is critical for mobile/netbook users, where power consumption is key.

[Alex]

What I would love to see in the future is how to write a "real world" application. By this I do not mean a fancy GUI, you are doing a good job of covering this already, but rather more of the low level plumbing. Many RIAs require authentication, how would I do this in JavaFX? Please include some basic server code using for example JAX-RS. How do I use JAX-RS client libraries in JavaFX or is this not necessary as JavaFX APIs suffice? Examples of using RESTful client APIs. Some examples of how different Applets interact and interact with the DOM of the webpage. Use of more sophisticated widgets such as JTable etc. to build *business* JavaFX applets.
Thank you for a great blog!

[prince]

I am really looking for designing atractive UI using JavaFX. How can we use Layout in JavafX. IS all the custom components that we are creating in javafx are quality one. what are the basic things that we should look while we design any custom component(example if we create custom component in swing atleast we should override getMaximumSize(), etc).