Foojay Podcast #9: The State of JavaFX Framework, Libraries, and Projects
- December 19, 2022
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- 2 min read
JavaFX was introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 2007 and provides a platform for desktop, mobile, and embedded applications built on Java.
Libraries and software are available for the complete lifecycle of an application to run from a single codebase on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. JavaFX was originally part of the JDK, the Java Development Kit, and became a standalone technology in 2018.
The development is a joint effort between Oracle, Gluon (a small Belgian-based company), and the community.
Let's talk about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it.
Guests
- Pedro Duque Vieira (@p_duke)
- Sean Phillips (@seanmiphillips)
- Johan Vos (@[email protected], @johanvos)
- Gail Anderson (@gail_asgteach)
- Dirk Lemmermann (@dlemmermann)
Podcast host
- Frank Delporte (@[email protected] - @frankdelporte)
Content
- 00'00 Short intro and music
- 00'16 Introduction about the topic of this podcast
- 00'57 Introduction of the guests and host
- 05'30 The state of the JavaFX/OpenJFX project
- 09'40 About the release cycle of JavaFX, which is aligned with Java (every 6 months)
- 11'52 Comparing JavaFX with Swing
- 14'12 Which of the Java UI libraries is further maintained
- 14'52 About blog posts on Foojay about JavaFX
- 17'34 CAD application by Petro
- 18'42 Applications developed by Dirk
- 19'43 About jfx-central.com, a showcase for JavaFX
- 24'46 JavaFX in the browser
- 27'01 The industry is considering Java as a server-only language. No broad support or big company is pushing JavaFX for app and web development.
- 30'14 Libraries created by Pedro
- 32'52 About the many available JavaFX libraries
- 35'34 Mobile development with JavaFX
- 39'05 JavaFX versus JavaScript frameworks
- 41'12 Introduction Sean
- 42'16 Trinity application by Sean
- 47'20 Sean wants to thank the guests and community.
- 48'50 Pedro and Dirk about their libraries being used in various applications
- JavaFX charts in the office of the US president:
https://twitter.com/potus/status/1422282055715594245
- JavaFX charts in the office of the US president:
- 51'42 The fans of JavaFX are working hard and building amazing stuff but don't have time to promote their work
- 56'00 About the announcement by Oracle that they now also will distribute builds of JavaFX
- 57'19 To be expected in the next versions of JavaFX
- 59'05 Conclusion
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Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Gail is a Java Champion and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. She is Director of Research and founding member of the Anderson Software Group, a leading provider of training courses in Java, JavaFX, Python, Go, Modern C++, and other programming languages.
Co Founder at Gluon
Pedro (@P_Duke) is a freelance consultant. His passion and work has been all about graphics, including UI Design and UX. Besides being a Software Engineer he is also a Software Designer. In his free time, he likes doing open source projects. Some of them, power the most well-known JavaFX software (like NASA’s DSTE). You can learn more and reach him with work proposals through pixelduke.com.
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