Java desktop links of the week, October 29

Wow - we're already at the end of October - time flies huh? :-) Here are your links of the last week - enjoy! :-)

JavaFX

• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about his experiences setting up a beagleboard (and touchscreen) to run JavaFX applications.
• Danno Ferrin has blogged about the 'ideal build system' for JavaFX, using Gradle.
• Over at FX Experience I announced the availability of the JavaFX 8 UI control sandbox repository, which is already full of new controls and features, including TreeTableView, RangeSlider, cell spanning support in TableView and Dialogs.
• NetBeans 7.2.1 is now available for download, and it comes with improved support for JavaFX 2.2.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has started working on a 'Metro' look for JavaFX called JMetro. It would be great to see this added to the JFXtras-Styles project.
• René Jahn has blogged about the various ways he has improved the JavaFX TableView control. I would love to see as much of this contributed back into OpenJFX!
• Andres Almiray continues to churn out JavaFX-related plugins for GroovyFX.
• JacpFX 1.1 has been released. JacpFX is a RCP framework on top of JavaFX and Spring.
• Geertjan Wielenga has blogged about how the JavaFX WebView component is being used by developers as a web browser inside their Swing applications.
• Wichit Sombat has put up a YouTube video showing how to build a JavaFX application with NetBeans.

Swing

• Danno Ferrin has released Insubstantial 7.2. Insubstantial is a maintenance fork of some of Kirill Grouchnikov's Wwing based projects. Specifically Substance, Trident, Flamingo, and some supporting projects.

Miscellaneous

• Sharon Zakhour has blogged about Apple's Java Mac OS X 2012-006 update.
• Excelsior have announced the Excelsior JET charity bundle, where you can get the standard edition of Excelsior JET for just $10 (without support obviously), and they contribute all of the money to charity.

That's that for another week. Now I can get back to real work! :-) Catch you again next week.