Follow the steps in this article to import localization classes, add property files, and localize the text of a tooltip in a JavaFX application.

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Now that the Layar Augmented Reality Browser has been released on the iPhone, I’d appreciate your help in finding Frosty the augmented-reality snowman (or would that be iPhrosty)? Simply do the five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt with your iPhone, take a screen shot of Frosty from the Layar AR browser, and send it to jim [at] aug.mx

The first three people that send me a screen shot of Frosty the AR Snowman from the Layar app in their iPhone will be rewarded with one token for any e-book that Apress (the publisher of my Pro JavaFX book) offers.

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Last June, I introduced my Painter’s Canvas article, which presents a technique for rendering complex graphics (such as fireworks, plasma, fractals, and fire). Instead of relying on nodes and javafx.scene.shape.Path objects (such as javafx.scene.shape.LineTo) to render the graphics, this technique relies on the concepts of canvas and painter for this task.

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Use the ShapeSubtract and ShapeIntersect classes in the JavaFX Desktop Profile to create novel shapes.

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JavaFX is a promising technology for nice Rich Internet Applications (RIA). However this is a quiet recent product (it was introduced by Sun at JavaOne, May 2007) and still lacks at integration with continuous development environments like hudson. Continuous integration is great because it reduces the gap between the development process and the release phase. With continuous integration, the work made by the developers is continuously compiled and tested against unit tests. This helps detecting many problems very early and simplifies the whole development process.

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If you have a few minutes for some fun and learning, check out these new tutorials from JavaFX Geeks Nancy Hildebrandt, Vaibhav Choudhary and Scott Hommel.

Shape Intersection, Subtraction, and Union by Nancy Hildebrandt and Vaibhav Choudhary shows you how to create new shapes by using shape intersection, subtraction, and union in the JavaFX Script programming language.

Creating a Digital Clock by Scott Hommel is a great introduction to image handling and animation using a Timeline.

Thanks Nancy, Vaibhav and Scott!
Jim Weaver
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With JavaFX/Java now being shepherded by Oracle, I thought it appropriate to start an Oracle-Mix forum where the JavaFX community can help each other and give feedback to Oracle JavaFX teams. 

This forum is affectionately entitled JavaFX Geeks and Newbies, and its stated purposes are:

1. Build a community that encourages and supports developers as they climb the JavaFX learning curve.
2. Build momentum of IT industry adoption of JavaFX.

Several JavaFX book authors, Oracle JavaFX folks, and other JavaFX activists hang out there, and I welcome your participation!  Please send me an email (jim.weaver [at] javafxpert.com) and I'll reply with a membership invitation.

Thanks,

Jim Weaver

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The most important JavaFX links from the last week, gathered from all over the internet.

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I’m happy to announce that our open source community and projects web site exadel.org is now live. It also hosts its first project: JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse. Why did we create this web site? Exadel always had a number of projects available on its site for download, most of them are free. One of the biggest challenges for users was to get involved. Even though most products were open source, it wasn’t easy to get the source code. The actual download was hosted on exadel.com, support forum for each project was hosted on Google Groups, and there was no way to enter any bugs. There was a big disconnect. exadel.org will try to solve all this, it will provide everything you would expect from man open source site and community. Everything is integrated now, you get product download, source code, forum and Jira to enter bugs. Our goal is to make it as simple as possible to get involved and use our products.

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The Exadel JavaFX plugin for Eclipse is now open source with a new version release. Pictures of Microsoft’s Courier digital journal are also out in the open.

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