JavaFX’s CustomNode class lets you create reusable node-based components for your user interfaces. Because these components aren’t skinnable, you can’t change a component’s appearance and/or behavior without rewriting the component. Fortunately, Sun has addressed this limitation by providing the javafx.scene.control package with its two core classes:

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JavaFX 1.1.1 was released last week. There are no new apis, but some good video related bug fixes. The full release notes are here.

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JavaFX tools suite will provide a suite of developer and authoring tools that bridge the gap between user experience design and development logic, providing designers and developers unprecedented collaboration opportunities. Find out more about JavaFX at the Sun Developer Network.
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This puzzler is mainly directed at the students of the free JavaFX with Passion! course,
and it contains concepts that have been covered in the course so far, including animation. 
The first student in that course who submits a correct solution will be
awarded a free token for the Pro JavaFX early access eBook. 
If you’re not enrolled in that course, feel free to submit a solution
to this puzzler as well, because I’ll give a free eBook for the first
correct solution from a non-JavaFX-with-Passion student as well.

Here are the requirements for this second puzzler:

1. As shown in the screenshot above, the JavaFX program must have a Path that resembles a “figure 8″ race track.
2. A blue ellipse representing the race car will follow the track when the program begins, with each lap taking 10 seconds.
3. The car will loop infinitely around the track, and will remain perpendicular to the center point of the circle around which it is currently traveling.
4. When the user presses the mouse on the race car (ellipse), the car will pause.
5. When the user presses the mouse on a paused race car, the car will resume moving from its current location.

To enter your solution, submit a comment to this blog post that
contains the source code pasted into it.  To validate that the code
meets the requirements, I will compile and run it with JavaFX SDK 1.1.1.
It must run without any code editing, and must meet the above
requirements.

I will feature the two winners and their solutions in an upcoming blog post.  Have fun with this one!

Regards,
Jim Weaver
JavaFXpert.com

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This will be my last post on ZDNet. Blogging here has been one of the most fun things I’ve been able to do in my career. In fact, basically everything started here. Almost all of the various connections I’ve made over the past couple of years are as a result of this blog. It’s given me an unprecedented level of access to all of the smartest people in the RIA world. And it’s been a crazy ride. We’ve seen RIA go from something of a niche to a core part of the web. Almost every company has come up
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Mike Chambers has posted an entry entitled Rich Runtime Install Sizes Matrix in which he compares the download size of RIA runtimes Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Silverlight 3 beta, and JavaFX.
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I have put together a table which lists a number of browser based rich client runtimes and their install sizes along with which platforms they are available on and supported. The runtimes covered include: Adobe Flash Player 10 Silverlight 2 Silverlight 3 beta JavaFX 1.1.1 I have obtained the information from the runtimes’ websites. The download sizes are based on actual download size, and not the download size stated on the website (there were some discrepancies). Sections that are
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La revue de presse de l’actualité Java/J2EE hebdomadaire proposée par Xebia. Actualité éditeurs / SSII Sun, Java et le JCP RIA, SOA, Tim Bray tire dans le tas SOA Red Hat JBoss choisit d’investir dans CXF Le coin de la technique Enfin une roadmap détaillée pour le JDK7 La création de bundles OSGi selon SpringSource Utiliser le nuage pour réduire les coûts d’intégration continue. Outils Glassfish pour Eclipse Actualité éditeurs / SSII Sun, Java
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