Santiago Pericas-Geertsen's Blog

Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen is a staff engineer in the Java Web Services group at Sun Microsystems. Santiago is a lead developer of the Fast Web Services project at Sun Microsystems as well as an editor for the W3C XML Binary Characterization working group. In addition, he is a PMC member at the Apache Software Foundation representing the Xalan/XSLTC project.

Have fun learning JavaFX!

As many of you out there, I wanted to explore the world of JavaFX. After looking at a few demos here and there, I decided it was time to write some code; there is simply no better way to learn a new technology like this than writing something. A quick glance over the language primitives and programming model made my decision very easy: a simple video game was best choice to learn JavaFX!

I am not a game programmer, but just like many of you, I wrote a couple of simple games in the past. So it took some GIFs from an old game (which are share by most Space Invader-like games out there!) and put together a very simple game in 400+ likes of JavaFX code. I was amazed by the result. JavaFX is a incredible powerful platform, so I decided to share with you the source code to hopefully encourage you to get started as well. Here's what the game looks like:

It should be pretty easy to port this game to JavaFX Mobile, but I haven't had the time myself (so if you do it, please send it to me!). The controls are straightforward: UP ARROW, DOWN ARROW, LEFT ARROW, RIGHT ARROW and SPACE (fire).

I believe the source code is pretty easy to read, so I hope a quick glance at it we'll get you intrigued and help you get started. Have fun!

DOWNLOAD JNebulaFx SOURCE CODE HERE

Deploying SGMP Connectors built using JAX-RS (Screencast)

This is a follow-up to the blog "Developing SGMP Connectors using JAX-RS" where I focus on how to deploy an SGMP connector developed using JAX-RS. Once again, rather than bore you with words, I will attempt to entertain you with a screencast. The screencast will show you how to build your connector using Netbeans and how to deploy and configure your connector using the GlassFish admin console.

Developing SGMP Connectors using JAX-RS (Screencast)

Last week we announced the availability of version 1.1 of the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform (SGMP), formerly known as Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP). In the previous version, a connector could only be developed using the ECBO API; in this new version, a connector can also be developed using JAX-RS. The attached screencast shows how to develop a JAX-RS connector using Netbeans 6.5 and Maven. Next time we'll focus on how to deploy a JAX-RS connector.

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