One of the important features of JavaFX is its ability to load and manipulate rich graphics coming from professional designer tools such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. This is possible by using JavaFX Production Suite for exporting graphics from the designer tools to FXZ format and then by loading and manipulating the graphics from by classes in the javafx.fxd package. For example stuff from the screenshot below - graphics like we used for the demo of the JavaFX Production Suite for the JavaFX launch event back in December 2008. 

The team delivering the JavaFX Production Suite will be at JavaOne and will be doing a session session "Getting the Most from the Designers with JavaFX Production Suite" and a BOF "Quo Vadis JavaFX Production Suite". The session is aimed more at beginners and intermediate JavaFX developer and will focus at the introduction, basic usage and feature overview of the JavaFX Production Suite, whereas the BOF will be more about advanced and upcoming features. We would like to also use the BOF as the platform to hear feedback from you! Both sessions will have many cool demos with stuff you never shown in public before, including new features of 1.2 and stuff  we are preparing in our kitchen for the upcoming releases (and I can tell you it is pretty wild stuff, think about stuff like animations, audio, interactivity ...)

You can come to see as at the session: 

• ID#: TS-5494
• Title: Getting the Most from the Designers with the JavaFX™ Production Suite
• Date: 02-JUN-09
• Time: 04:40 PM-05:40 PM
• Venue: Moscone
• Room: North 124

and at the BOF:

• ID#: BOF-5493
• Title: Quo Vadis JavaFX™ Production Suite
• Date: 02-JUN-09
• Time: 07:30 PM-08:20 PM
• Venue: Moscone
• Room: North 124  

See you all there!

JavaFX Production Suite Team 

The JFXStudio has launched a new micro challenge: Small World Sound The twist on this one is that the entries must incorporate a set of graphics and sound provided for the contest. I's an fun collection of artwork so this should make the entries quite interesting. Why don't you show the world what you can cook up?!

I recently did an interview with the excellent web technologist, Scott Hanselman, on his podcast Hanselminutes. He happened to be in Eugene, Oregon (where I live) presenting to our local .NET user group so I invited him to a local pub for burgers and beer. Afterwards we sat down to chat about RIAs, JavaFX, and the battle to be The VM on the web. You can find the interview on his website or iTunes.

JavaFX.com now has a set of resources that can help you craft a better look and feel for your JavaFX applicaiton. 

Image, Color Schemes, Fonts, Sound Effects and Music and Icons - galore !! Check it out ! 

Hello, 

 In this past week the Application Showcase on the  JavaFX.com community page has featured 

• A niffty looking Image Viewer which gets pictures from Flickr using WebServices APIs and renders the same.  
• memeFX A set of  rich freely evolving JavaFX components
• and a JavaFX google maps mashup.

 

This and other applications received some good press. In addition Raghu writes about creating a tool tip for a node and another twist on webservices and maps based apps, can be seen on Vaibhav's blog post. 

We now have JavaFX contents in Brazilian Portuguese .  The language family now consists English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.  Simply click on the [Change] link at the bottom of JavaFX.com  and you can select a language of your choice.