Diego Benna, JavaFX Coding Contest Student Winner, talks about JavaFX and his winning application!
| Student Views and Reviews recently sat down with Diego Benna, developer of the Real Track Car Race application, and one of the student winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge. Diego is a student at Padua University, Italy where he is studying IT. Diego began using JavaFX in January after reading about it on Sun's Web site. He was immediately “fascinated by the effects and the simplicity of the code,” which was all he needed to try it out and “found that it was very easy to use.” Diego taught himself the programming language by studying the code examples on JavaFX.com. |
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Diego stated that the most useful aspect of JavaFX in creating Real Track Car Race was “the simplicity in creating a graphical interface.” He also pointed out how easy it was to make a data mashup with JavaFX, which allowed him to design the application to allow users to select their own race route through Yahoo! maps. Diego has several new projects under way that use JavaFX, including a layout manager called DigLayout version three, in addition to a visual tool for designing JavaFX graphical interfaces without writing code! One feature Diego said he is looking forward to seeing in a future JavaFX release is a three-dimensional library, so he can make applications that allow users to move through the game in a virtual 3-D environment, and more closely represent how they move, and the information they can get and receive in the real world. Diego recently updated Real Track Car Race to JavaFX 1.2, noting that it makes the application “much more efficient.” He was so impressed with the update he stated: “I think that if JavaFX continues to progress as it has, it will be the program language of the future because developers will love the simplicity and graphic effects JavaFX delivers.” The complete interview with Diego can be found here. |
