Rakesh Menon: Java, JavaFX and beyond...

Neil Bartlett has been working for Sun Microsystems to advance the tooling for JavaFX within Eclipse. In this demo he will show the current progress and preview some up-coming features. He will also show a demo of using OSGi for runtime modularity in a JavaFX application

What: JavaFX @ Eclipse DemoCamps When: 24th November 2009, 18:30 to 20:30 Where: Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DP Website: URL

Attendance is free, but you must register with SkillsMatter

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We can create emboss and engrave text effects by using layers of nodes and Light Effects API. In below screenshots, the first two are generated using layers of nodes and third one using Light effects API.

JankoAtWarpSpeed has many tutorials related to building of functional and good looking web sites. The tutorials can also be adapted for implementing engrave text effect in JavaFX. I followed the steps mentioned in "Two simple ways to create text embossing effect" tutorial and reproduced the engrave effect in JavaFX! The same approach can used for emboss by moving the shadow nodes in opposite direction.

For third effect, I used the SpotLight API. The values specified for this is obtained from Light Effect Sample. Another sample code is available in JavaFX API Docs of SpotLight.

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Try it out and let me know feedback.. Please do share other approach..

Simple image viewer for Picasa Web Albums using Data API. It shows pictures taken at Hogenakkal Falls from my Picasa account.

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The application gets a feed listing all of the albums belonging to specified user using ListAlbums and ListAlbumPhotos. The feed is parsed using HttpRequest and PullParser APIs.

Try it out and let me know feedback..

The Echo Nest provides series of web based solutions for better search, recommendation and interactivity on the music web. The Echo Nest API allows you to call methods that respond in REST style XML. Please refer to API documentation for more information.

They also provide a series of data feeds in various formats. Below application is updated version of DraggableMP3Player sample. Now it gets data from "Found Audio Feed" using JavaFX RssTask APIs.

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Type name of artist in TextField and press enter key. It will get the list of songs using Echo Nest feed. Click play to listen to songs! Simple! It will save the last searched artist name using JavaFX Storage APIs.

Note: Most of the media were in MP3 format (not streaming) and hence may take a while to download and play. Please try to incorporate more APIs and write new player..