In this article, the first of several in which I explore various options for building Java EE applications in JavaFX 2.0, I perform a direct port of Richard Bair’s FXML+Guice dependency injection example into Spring. (Richard Bair is Oracle’s Chief Architect for the Client Java Platform.) Many developers still believe that Spring is all about XML configuration files, but it has evolved a lot since the early days. I’m going to use Spring’s annotation-based configuration to create a pure Java example (i.e., zero Spring XML) that looks almost identical to the Guice one.

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e(fx)clipse provides tooling integration for JavaFX 2.0 into the Eclipse IDE

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The short guide to begin to build your JavaFX 2 application with Maven.

An example is demonstrated with continuous integration and delivery.

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The release of the JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview for Linux last week rounds out the Mac OS X and Windows releases that were already available. I thought that this would be an interesting time to take the pulse of the JavaFX community, so I asked several JavaFX developers to articulate the significance of this release. Here’s what the 14 developers that responded had to say:

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The beta is a 32-bit release, and requires Ubuntu 10.04 or later or equivalent, and requires JDK 7 Update 2. To give it a spin, I downloaded the JavaFX 2.1 SDK Developer Preview for Linux, the *.tar.gz version of 32-bit JDK 7. Untarred them into the /opt directory, resulting in

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In October 2011, I used the post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans IDE 7.1 beta to look at using NetBeans IDE 7.1 beta to build a simple Hello, World style of JavaFX 2.0 application. In this post, I look at using NetBeans IDE 7.1 (no longer in beta) to build a slightly more sophisticated JavaFX 2 application that makes heavy use of FXML.

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Hello folks,

Today I would like to blog about the FXML define and include tag which can be very useful for those who are very keen to use FXML in their application. The FXML is an XML file which is loaded by javafx using FXMLLoader . It’s all loaded at the runtime and it’s really fast to load and easy to learn too. The previous blog about the FXML as Flexible XML is just a basic about FXML . Today in this blog here you will learn about how to include FXML files in your main FXML file.

I’m talking about the > tag of the FXML.

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Very often one has to create a number of of similar objects. Using JavaFX builders for this task instead of constructors has several advantages as we will see in this article.

In short, builders…
are easier to read and understand
avoid some “copy & paste”-bugs
result in small, but simple code, if builders are reused

When using JavaFX, you typically have to create a number of similar objects with only few attributes different. For example your screen may contain buttons, which have the same size and style, but different locations, labels, and event handlers. Or you want to use similar transitions for some elements.

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JavaFX animation package provides many amazing animation/transition effects. Let’s look into another effect, “Sliding” effect of node (relative to the parent node).  The term ‘relative’ refers to, like the node should hide relatively under the parent node by sliding. If you are familiar with “Titled Pane”, I am speaking about the same effect how the content of the pane is shown and hide. I am trying to achieve this with some simple logic and using some properties of a node.

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The moment I started working with TableView in JavaFX 2.x, the first question raised in my mind is “Why there is no feature of setting the column widths in percentage as we do in HTML?” I am not sure what could be the reasons for not setting this feature. But if my application demands, I have to implement this by somehow . Ofcourse there are a couple of issues logged in JIRA  related to this functionality, but till it get resolved here is the way (workaround) how I tried to get it.

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