JavaFX Links of August 2025

Here are the links shared on jfx-central.com in the August summary.

Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

Core

• Announced by Johan Vos: "JavaFX now has a Headless platform. JDK-8324941 is now Resolved! Pfew, that took me 1 year, 5 months and 29 days. Goodnight!"
  • Read more in this blog post: Introducing the Headless Platform for JavaFX.
• And Johan is also making progress with Java on Mobile: "OpenJDK on mobile developers should be excited: we're very close to a full, transparent, open release of the status. Workflow is cool now: I made a simple change in OpenJDK, ran 2 scripts, clicked "cmd-R" in Xcode, and HelloWorld appeared again (with the changed JDK) on my iPhone."
• Still using JavaFX 8 in production and need a solution to run it securely after Oracle stopped supporting it? Check out this blog post by Frank Delporte about the solution provided by Azul: Keep your JavaFX 8 Applications Secure and Running.

Applications

• Gerrit Grunwald on Bluesky: "Last night I’ve implemented TimeBuddy which is my favorite timezone app on iOS in #JavaFX might be time for another #FridayFunComponent 😁"
• Michiel on Bluesky: "I've created a 100% #java open source mobile phone app (#android only for now): An Icelandic currency converter (IceCo). The project uses Java, Javafx with FXML only. See GitHub. Converts krónur to euro (vice versa)"

Games

• Konstantin Ryadov is experimenting with FXGL to build a labyrinth game: "A small first‑person labyrinth game built with Java 21, JavaFX 21 (3D) and FXGL. A randomized maze is generated each level; find the animated exit to advance. The game features textured 3D walls/floor/ceiling, ambient lighting, footstep sounds, and background music for the menu and in‑game." He published two videos:
  • Opensourced: Yet another labyrinth using JavaFX and FXGL
  • 1.0.1 - new updates
• Computerized Garden, a.k.a. GardenSim, is a Java 17 + JavaFX 22 project that simulates a small garden by Wineel Wilson Dasari. You can plant (Rose, Tomato, Orange), simulate weather, spawn/control pests, and watch plants survive or die over days.
• Released on Steam: Nocturne FX. "Built entirely in JavaFX, Nocturne FX™ is a high-intensity arcade game where survival warps reality. Power-ups destabilize, patterns shift, and hidden systems awaken—the longer you last, the more the world unravels."

Components, Libraries, Tools

• Gerrit Grunwald released version 21.0.27 of his Charts library with a new SpiderChart "just for the fun of it 🙂".

Podcasts, Videos, Books

• During the CyberJAR live stream "Chatting about Java, JavaFX, and Experiments on the Raspberry Pi" with Catherine Edelveis and Frank Delporte, several JavaFX applications where demonstrated running on Raspberry Pi.

Tutorials

• Video tutorials:
  • By Plant Fall: Creating a Desktop app rapidly with JavaFX and VsCode.
  • By HTRP: Step-by-step guide to connect a javaFX project with Microsoft SQL Server using IntelliJ.

Miscellaneous

• A N M "Bazlur" Rahman on LinkedIn: "You can create incredible things with JavaFX. Here are some examples I made with it."
• William Antônio Siqueira shared a screenshot on LinkedIn: "I just added a log inspector to LLM FX, suggestion from Max Rydahl Andersen - thanks! This feature allow us to precisely see what Tools were called by the LLM Server and what messages were sent to it. This was possible because today was Day of Learning at Red Hat, so I invested some time learning more about Jupyter Lab extensions, LLM Tools Calling internally and then took some time to inspect some tools call."
• Johan Vos on Bluesky: "One of my favorite API's for JavaFX testing is Scene.addPostLayoutPulseListener(). I often need to test a condition at the end of a Pulse, and with this API, I can do that."
• gufranthakur on Reddit wrote a long post "My experience switching from Java swing to JavaFX", with a nice conclusion, and a lot of comments: "My Final verdict: JavaFX is better than Swing. There I said it. This does not mean Swing sucks, I will forever be grateful to Swing for getting me addicted and good at desktop application development."

JFX Central

• New content on JFX Central:
  • Library: BentoFX: A docking system for JavaFX.
  • Video: BentoFX - Demo
• The overview of the Links Of The Week of July got published on Foojay.

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Frank Delporte

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Frank Delporte 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 and JavaFX, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.