Java desktop links of the week, December 3

December already?! I know I say it a lot, but time flies! Let's get on with the links...

JavaFX

• Marco Jakob has posted all five parts of his JavaFX 2 tutorials online. You can find all five parts at these links: part 1 (Scene Builder), part 2 (model and TableView), part 3 (interacting with the user), part 4 (CSS styling - making use of JMetro) and part 5 (storing data as XML).
• Johan Vos has announced the release of DataFX 1.0. DataFX is a library for retrieving data from remote data sources and easily populating (and rendering) JavaFX UI controls.
• Sébastien Bordes has announced the release of JRebirth 0.7.1. JRebirth is a JavaFX 2 Application Framework.
• Eric Bruno has published part two of his 'JavaFX file editor'article. In this entry, he talks about the JavaFX WebView component, the simple file editor itself, and keyboard processing.
• Danno Ferrin has two posts this week. Firstly he has posted about his new Gradle JavaFX plugin, and secondly he has a post about using Scenic View in the Gradle JavaFX plugin.
• Randahl Fink Isaksen has blogged about JavaFX performance tips to leverage multi-core CPUs.
• Hendrik Ebbers continues his JavaFX-related posts this week, including part two of his series of posts on custom UI controls in JavaFX. He also has announced that GridFX is now part of JFXtras (which is great news), and that GridFX is now styleable via CSS with custom CSS properties.
• Thierry Wasyl has blogged about how to use the JavaFX TableView control.
• Jim Laskey has demonstrated how Nashorn (the Javascript-on-the-JVM project) can use JavaFX.
• A new (and open source) library was announced this week for JavaFX data services called Granite Data Services. Check out their blog for a very comprehensive blog post on the functionality offered by this library, as well as their thoughts on input validation in JavaFX (I should note that this is on our radar but not something we've started to work on yet) and real-time messaging with JavaFX 2.
• René Jahn continues to explore embedded JavaFX. This week he has posts on NFC/RFID for Beagleboard xm with Java, and JavaFX TimeTracking with Beagleboard-xm.
• Leon Atherton has a post titled "Reflecting on Reflections: The JavaFX Reflection Effect".
• José Pereda has posted part one of his series of posts on NXTLegoFX, a JavaFX-based application to play with a Lego Mindstorms NXT.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted a useful utility class to convert JavaFX shapes into SVG paths.
• Geertjan Wielenga has linked to a YouTube video by Paul and Gail Anderson presenting their JavaFX / Swing / NetBeans sample application.
• Carl Dea has had an article about the JavaFX Canvas API published in the November issue of JAX Magazine.
• JFrog Artifactory now supports deploying JavaFX applications.

Swing

• Danno Ferrin has announced the release of Insubstantial 7.2.1, which fixes a few regressions.
• Aurelien Ribon has posted a new library he calls the 'sliding layout' - see the video on his blog for an explanation :-) I'd love to see this done in JavaFX.

Griffon

• Andres Almiray has three posts of note this week. Firstly he has posted about "Griffon: i18n FXML content on the fly", secondly "Griffon: Bringing back the fun to desktop development", and finally "Griffon vs Eclipse4: First Round".

Catch you in a weeks time!