Student Views and Reviews: Sun on Campus

Student Views and Reviews recently asked Shailesh Kumar, a Master's student in computer science at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, about his experience with JavaFX. Shailesh has a passion for developing mobile applications, which he said first started with the J2ME gaming challenge in 2005. Since then, he has worked with multiple mobile application platforms including Windows mobile and Android.

Shailesh first started using JavaFX when the Code JavaFX Challenge (India) was announced earlier this year, and has primarily used online resources to get up to speed with the programming language. Among the online resource Shailesh found most helpful are javapassion.com “for most of the syntax and basic how-to examples,” as well as the JavaFX.com site where Shailesh said he learned the API and code examples.

Obviously, with Shailesh's keen interest in mobile applications, that is the aspect of JavaFX he is most focused on. When asked what he would like to see added he said, “more integration with APIs,” because Shailesh said he found some limitations with JavaFX not being able to utilize the complete capabilities of MMAPI available on mobile phones when working on his entry for the JavaFX Coding Challenge. As far as his favorite feature, Shailesh says it is hands down the bind keyword, but also said he “really appreciates the ability to mix JavaFX and Java.”

Read the full Q&A with Shailesh here.