http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/ en-us 2009-06-29T03:20:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/shame_on_you_me.html The past week I've spend a day in Zurich to attend OSGi DevCon Europe. It has been a good experience, even though I was (and I am) not yet in good shape.When I left the venue, before going to the... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-29T03:20:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/wine_delivered.html Well, so I'm at OSGi DevCon Europe (the only day I'm being in Zurich). One of the missions I had to accomplish is to deliver some fine italian wine to Felipe Gaucho, for thanking him as he's hosting some CPU-intensive... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-22T02:16:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/first_enhanceme.html After the May pause, I've resumed working on BBB. As anticipated, the focus now is on test coverage, but I've also started working on some enhancements / bugs submitted by people. For instance, BETTERBEANSBINDING-32, "JTableBinding.ColumnBinding: cell renderer/editor" is about adding... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-15T10:55:31-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/jazoon_and_osgi.html Just a reminder of the next round of conferences:OSGi DevCon 2009 (and GlassFish Community Day) will be held in Zurich on Monday 22nd.Jazoon 2009 will be held in Zurich for the rest of the week.I'll attend OSGi DevCon; no Jazoon... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-15T04:24:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/javafx_binding.html An interesting chains of discussions has been triggered about JavaFX features and how it can be possibly used beyond the GUI scope.Osvaldo has just published an interesting post. Actually I like binding a lot, but I was wondering about some... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-11T14:45:42-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/what_if_you_run.html Well, clearly Cobertura can't handle the syntax of JavaFX, so I think many figures are wrong (e.g. Branch Coverage, Complexity; I'm unsure about Line Coverage). But some bit of useful information is here, at least for what concerns what you... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-07T07:43:20-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/writing_a_ui_co.html While JavaFX is great for the UI (binding, declarative stuff, etc...) it's also a good candidate for writing controllers (in a MVC).Of course I'm not saying I'd write a complete application (I mean, a back-end) in JavaFX - JavaFX is... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-06T16:28:59-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/sven_reimers_an.html More details will come later, but in the meantime I'd like to let people know that one of the Duke Awards of this year has been granted to Sven Reimers for a really cool project made on the NetBeans Platform.... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-05T10:00:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/upgraded_javafx.html Not only the JavaFX SDK got upgraded, but we have much improved support in the NetBeans IDE - but some things are probably not obvious. Is it the NetBeans 6.5.1 bundled with JavaFX 1.2 the same thing as upgrading your... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-05T07:39:43-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/javafx_12_still.html A few days ago I discovered a nasty bug with the JavaFX compiler (or NetBeans? or both?) that prevents you from splitting a large project in sub-projects; see item #4 in my post at DZone. I hoped that the bug... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-04T05:50:52-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/not_yet_javafx.html I've just installed the NetBeans 6.5.1 + JavaFX 1.2 pack on Linux Ubuntu. No problems for developing and running applications with the standard profile. But when I tried to run with the "mobile" profile, I first got an exception, NetBeans... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-04T05:25:28-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/interview_with_1.html I met Dennis Reedy five years ago (boys, how fast time flows!) when he participated in one of the most interesting projects I've done so far, the Real Time Telemetry Service (RTTS) for Formula 1 cars, by Magneti Marelli Motorsport... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-04T01:52:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/first_webcast_o.html I've almost finished the port of blueBill-Mobile to JavaFX 1.2. Basically the only issues still open are related to layout, as there are a few things that have changed and I have to understand better. In particular, one of the... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-03T16:01:47-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/and_this_year_t.html Nandini Ramani, director of JavaFX Engineering, just showed a demo, with Jonathan on the stage. It's the new designer tool for JavaFX. This year the bug was only with the projector (people couldn't see the first few seconds of the... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-02T09:41:57-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/javafx_12_lots.html So, JavaFX 1.2 is out and you can download it from javafx.com (note: when you press the "Download now" button you'll still see 1.1.1, just click on the bottom link "See downloads for other platforms"). Yes, there's the Linux version... fabriziogiudici 2009-06-02T03:22:01-08:00