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Hard Reference In my last blog entry, ScalaFX A Walkthrough, I talked about setting up ScalaFX 2.0 in IntelliJ 10.5 with the Scala Build Tool (SBT) in the screencast. I left out some salient points. The JavaFX 2.0 SDK has one important hardcoded reference in it, which makes it hard to use in a Maven […]

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In this video cast, I walk you through downloading ScalaFX and setting up the environment for IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 with Scala Build Tool (SBT) in real-time.     ScalaFX is a domain specific language and binding framework written in Scala that wraps the JavaFX 2.0 application programming interface. Information of Scala Build Tool can be […]

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Where do you go from here? Petaluma’s Boulevard movie theatre   My California tour continued from Petaluma to Santa Rosa across the US 101 to Napa Valley, Castiloga and then to Sacramento City. The tour swung southwards to Oracle’s Redwood Shore for a final presentation. After that I stayed with friends, Larry and Patti at […]

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In order to get JavaFX 2.0 to work with a Maven Repository, requires some fudge factor. Because one cannot simply redistribute JavaFX Library, you have to install the libraries manually into a local Maven repository. This is my MSDOS command script to do it: Once you have the local repository set up, once include a […]

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I have completed all three of my Progressive JavaFX 2.0 talks in California, at JavaOne 2011, Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothills College and Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group at Oracle Conference Center. You get the slides deck from here as a PDF document. The source code is a Maven assembly distribution, a ZIP file, […]

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Wow! What a week it has been in California at JavaOne. [FULL VERSION – After the crash of flaming Microsoft Live Writer, I recovered and improved this blog entry.]   View from Hotel Nikko upper level looking down on the Mason Street Buzz Cafe, Chill Out Area The biggest news of the event were the […]

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At the JavaOne 2011 conference, the biggest news of the Tuesday came during the Java Strategy keynote, at the Hilton hotel San Francisco. Nandani Ramani had another of those JavaFX demos, which demonstrated JavaFX 2.0 running on a Apple iPad 2.0, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Android 3.1 and, get this, a Acer Windows […]

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JavaOne 2011 Impressions The first news is that JavaFX 2.0 has been released as general availability [Alternative download here]. Oracle have delivered on their promised, or may be it was Sun Microsystems vision, to reinvigorate the user interface on the desktop. I think this is a fantastic result, and the entire Oracle JavaFX SDK team […]

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Good Morning from California I am presenting at JavaOne 2011 this year. The first of three talks on my trip to California this year. Today, I will give a talk today on Progressive JavaFX 2.0 in , which is expected to be released very soon.   "Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" – Say it loud! Say […]

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In April, 2011, I received one morning an email from Simon Ritter one of Sun Microsystems long standing Java Evangelists and now Oracle. The message was an invitation to be a part of Java SE, Client Side Technologies, and Rich User Experiences track. The track included all JavaFX sessions submitted along with any other UI […]

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  Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting Through Actors by Viktor Klang You know that I came across the name always, Viktor Klang, but I think always the Java Posse mailing list / Google forum along with Casper Bang. So here was the man in person and I had no idea before this […]

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  Keynotes   To Wednesday 17th November 2010 and the proper conference began in earnest with a keynote by Mark Reinhold, which was about Java SE 7 and then followed by Dion Almer and Ben Galbraith, who had a breathe taking reprise of State of the Web. Java SE 7 and 8 Mark Reinhold talk […]