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JavaFX Team Q&A at Community Corner 2009

Posted by editor on May 14, 2009 at 5:45 AM PDT

Several members of the JavaFX team will be appearing in an open question and answer session in a java.net Community Corner event on Wednesday, June 3, at 2:00, in the java.net booth at JavaOne. Ed Ort, of the Sun Developer Network, will be moderating. For Ed to be moderating the Q&A is particularly fitting, since Ed has done a lot of writing about JavaFX recently, including this week's java.net Spotlight feature, JavaFX App-O-Rama: Applications From the Community.

As I described in my earlier post, Ed's JavaFX App-O-Rama article is multifaceted in a way that lets us see the type of applications early JavaFX developers have come up with: he presents visual images of the applications, a button to launch the applications, key code snippets, and quotes from the developers. If you haven't yet had time to take a look at JavaFX, the JavaFX App-O-Rama is a very good starting point.

Today's lead Java Today news item is also about JavaFX: Danny Coward posted a summary of the state of JavaFX tooling, in which he describes the growing support for JavaFX development by the developers of Java toolkits and IDEs. Among the toolkits he highlights are:

  • the JavaFX Production Suite, which enables integration of graphics from professional graphics creation tools into JavaFX applications; and
  • the new JavaFX designer tool that is being worked on by Sun developers (including Tor Norbye)

I don't know if a final decision has been made yet on exactly which members of the JavaFX team will be participating in the Community Corner Q&A. But, I expect it to be an interesting session. If JavaFX interests you and you'd like a chance to pose some questions to the team, come to the java.net booth in the JavaOne Pavillion at 2:00 on Wednesday, June 2. Admission is free. See you there!

Oh -- and if you won't be at JavaOne, you'll still be able to hear the JavaFX team Q&A session: it will be available online as a podcast not too long after the actual event takes place. I'll point that out to you when it comes online.

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In Java Today, Danny Coward provides a summary of the state of JavaFX tooling: "All the href="http://javafx.com/">JavaFX tools are based on the basic command-line tools contained in the JavaFX SDK. Tools to invoke the runtime, compiler, and package, and document JavaFX applications. And of course, since JavaFX is itself built in and on Java, the tried and tested Java tools are often useful, especially in profiling and debugging JavaFX applications..."

Kirill Grouchnikov announces Release candidate for Flamingo 4.1: "I am pleased today to announce the availability of release candidate for version 4.1 of Flamingo component suite (code-named Guenivere). It is a stabilization release that adds a few minor features and fixes all known bugs. Here is the list of minor features added in release 4.1: Multi-row controls in ribbon bands..."

And Viral Patel gathered together 20 very useful Java code snippets for Java Developers: "Following are few very useful Java code snippets for Java developers. Few of them are written by me and few are taken from other code reference. Feel free to comment about the code and also add your code snippet..."

In today's Weblogs, Arun Gupta has posted GlassFish and Servlet 3.0 Slides from San Francisco JUG: "As mentioned earlier, Jan and I talked about GlassFish and Servlet 3.0 at the San Francisco JUG yesterday night. Approximately 40 attendees and a great Q&A session at the end made it a truly enjoying experience. The GlassFish slides are available here and Servlet 3.0 slides are available..."

Tim Boudreau tells us about A library for diffing java.util.Lists: "I recently set up a new project on Kenai.com - this is something that has been available in NetBeans for years, and is probably useful to a wider audience. It is a library for taking two java.util.Lists and generating a diff between them..."

And Kohsuke Kawaguchi announces Hudson PXE plugin 1.0 is released: "A new Hudson plugin automates installation of OS on PCs. And as with everything else in Hudson, it's very easy to use..."

This week's java.net Poll asks: "How quickly will JavaFX be adopted as a rich client technology?" Today (Thursday) is the last full day of voting in this poll, so get your vote in if you haven't already done so.

This week's Spotlight is Ed Ort's article JavaFX App-O-Rama: Applications From the Community: "Although the JavaFX platform is only a few months old -- its initial full release was in December 2009 -- people are already building some very interesting applications with it. This is a vibrant, creative, and extremely productive community..."

In the Forums, michaelgriffith has a JPA/View Problem: "Hi all, I've searched the forum and it looks as if JPA does support views, which is what I am trying to do -- but having a problem. In my case, the view is owned by another schema. When I connect to the Oracle 10 schema using a tool like Toad, I can't see the view even though I can query it. I tried the query select * from user_views which produced no result. When I try to configure JPA (backed by Hibernate) I get the error: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: XXXX] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory  ...   [junit] Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Missing table: VIEW_TABLE I complained about this to my DBA, but the answer I get is: 'The system view user_views only shows views that the user owns...' "

dimok is seeing some Problems with GlassFish: "Dear, friends, please help me. I have installed glassfish server v2 and have added it to netbeans 6.5; when I tried to start it in the first time it worked correctly, but when I exited netbeans, then started it again and tried to start glassfish it didn't start. And the error occured: Error refreshing ConfigContext:C:\Distributives\glassfish\domains\domain1\config\domain.xml cause: Failed to create the XML-DOM Document.  Check your XML to make sure it is correct. Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence. What should I do? ..."

And question has questions regarding JXMapViewer - JButton as Waypoint: "Hi, I developed a application which places the custom waypoints onto the JXMapViewer. I used WaypointPainter class to customize the waypoint. I have not used Gaphics object to draw the waypoint instead i used setRenderer(..) I used JButton as a waypoints through which i added MouseListener to the waypoints to identify which waypoint was clicked. Problem: 1) When i move the map towards left/right/top/bottom some of the waypoints are strucking up in the corners. They are not losing the GeoPositions. Can you please give me the solution for this. 2) Is there any other way rather than using JButton as Waypoints and adding listeners to the JButton..."

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