Rakesh Menon: Java, JavaFX and beyond...

One of my previous post mentioned about way to specify Z-Order for JavaFX Nodes. Just thought of putting this approach to use in a carousel. There are lots of interesting samples available at shinedraw.com - Flash vs Silverlight Repository. Below is JavaFX port of FPS-Meter..

To launch click on above image or Click to add more images.

Note: The icons used in this sample are from MouseRunner.com licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

I did some monitoring with JConsole. It was giving consistent 60 fps for 50 nodes with average 13% CPU usage. JConsole details available here. I'll leave it to experts to come up with proper conclusion...

Launch JavaFX FPS Meter. Start JConsole and select the process
- com.sun.javafx.runtime.Main javafxfpsmeter.Main -
from "Local Process" list.

System Information:

• JavaFX: 1.2.1 (public)
• JavaSE: 1.6.0_16
• OS: Windows Vista
• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz
• Memory (RAM): 1.00 GB
• Display: NVIDIA Quadro NVS

There is significant performance improvement done in different components of JavaFX for next release.. Stay tuned.. I will share the statistics with exactly same test and same system so as to compare the improvement..

Please try it out and share your information and thoughts..