The winners of the JavaFX Blog Contest have just been announced. Congratulations to all 10 winners! Read these blog entries to learn about Coding an image gallery in JavaFX, learning JavaFX, Programming games in JavaFX and much more.
In related news, you can read an interview with Sten Anderson - the JavaFX coding contest winner, and also see what the student winner of the contest has to say.
The Tech Test Train showcases the many features of JavaFX technology including:
Ride the train, answer JavaFX questions, and earn points!
Terrance has a great blog covering the new JavaFX Mobile 1.2 Early Access for Windows Mobile. Read it here.
Terrance's blog includes a screencast demonstrating how to get started and how to run a sample application (Mosaic) on the HTC Diamond, including using the deploy-via-USB feature.
(Reposting an email we received from Sang Shin over the weekend)
The 1st session of the "Free 15-week JavaFX Programming (with Passion!)" online course ended as of today (July 25th, 2009) with participation of ~4000 people.
The 2nd session of the course will start from Aug. 25th, 2009. For registration, all you have to do is to send a blank email to the following email alias
javafxprogramming-subscribe@googlegroups.com
This course runs very much like a regular college course in which the students are expected to do weekly homework after studying the presentation material and doing the hands-on lab but it is free and can be taken online. There is also class email alias where students can ask/answer questions.
For more information, please go to the course websites below.
Course topics: http://www.javapassion.com/javafx/#Topics
Course website: http://www.javapassion.com/javafx
Course FAQ: http://www.javapassion.com/coursefaq.html
Congrats to Sang Shin and Jim Weaver on a highly successful first session and for all of you that missed out on your first chance to sign up... make sure you register today!
I am very excited to announced that we have posted an early access release of the JavaFX Mobile runtime to enable people to begin developing and running JavaFX applications on real devices! The runtime package is designed for use with select Windows Mobile handsets and also includes the Sun Java Wireless Client, giving you everything you need to get started today. While we've tested (and will be supporting) this package on the HTC Diamond and the LG Incite, you may be able to run it on other Windows Mobile devices as well, although your mileage may vary.
If you purchased an JavaFX-enabled HTC Diamond at JavaOne, we recommend that you update your device to this release. Although not required, you may also want to uninstall your previous release before installing and then make sure you install to "internal storage." We still have more work to do and will be updating this stack again in the future, but go ahead and grab yourself a copy, have fun, and talk to us about it!
Reviews Interactive recently spoke with JavaFX developer Fabrizio Giudici, a prominent and highly-respected blogger in the JavaFX community who writes regularly for both Java.net and DZone. Fabrizio said he is particularly interested in using JavaFX on mbile devices, which he stated is a great
platform to give applications “all the bells and whistles.” Read more ...
Note: This post is the first in a series of ongoing interviews Reviews Interactive is conducting with product experts who use various Sun technologies and blog about their experiences to both share their insight and examples, as well as help other developers better understand these technologies. Reviews interactive will talk to these experts to discuss new product updates and releases, how they are utilizing the technologies in their current projects, and what they hope to see in the future.
We are absolutely thrilled that Indaba has launched the Indaba Session Console 2.0 using JavaFX. Although they started with Flash, they found that JavaFX enabled them to provide their users with a more powerful and more flexible experience. Some of the top benefits include:
But rather than listen to us talk about it, hear what Indaba has to say! Or perhaps you'd like to know what Weezer's Rivers Cuomo thinks about it? (taken from Indaba's press release):
"I got different companies contacting me all the time trying to get me excited about their products, and most of the time I just don't care. But this particular application, the Indaba Music Console caught my fancy. It's like a simplified version of any of these complex professional recording programs that no one like me knows how to use. It's going to open the door for a giant population of musicians out there, a giant resource for somebody like me."
(he also said some nice things about JavaFX in a video that we'll hopefully be able to share with you in the future - and by the way Rivers, we love you too!)
If you want to check it out you can sign up for an account (free & paid membership options available) at Indabamusic.com!