Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK! - The state of JavaFX framework, libraries and projects (#9)

Dec 17, 2022

The state of JavaFX framework, libraries and projects (#9)

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JavaFX was introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 2007 and provides a platform for desktop, mobile, and embedded systems built on Java. Let's talk about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it.

Guests

Pedro Duque Vieira (@p_duke)
Sean Phillips (@seanmiphillips)
Johan Vos (@johanvos@mastodon.social, @johanvos)
Gail Anderson (@gail_asgteach)
Dirk Lemmermann (@dlemmermann)

Podcast host

Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte@foojay.social, @frankdelporte)

Content

00'00 Intro and music
00'16 About the topic of this podcast
00'57 Introduction of guests and host
05'30 State of JavaFX/OpenJFX project
09'40 6-month release cycle of JavaFX (= Java)
11'52 Comparing JavaFX with Swing
14'12 Different Java UI libraries
14'52 Blog posts on Foojay
- https://foojay.io/today/author/gail-anderson/
17'34 CAD application by Petro
- https://foojay.io/today/creating-cad-applications-with-java-and-javafx/
18'42 Applications by Dirk
19'43 jfx-central.com, a showcase for JavaFX
24'46 JavaFX in the browser
- https://gluonhq.com/developer-preview-for-javafx-inside-a-web-browser/
- https://github.com/jtulach/bck2brwsr
- https://webfx.dev/
- https://www.jpro.one/
- https://gluonhq.com/products/cloudlink/
27'01 Java is considered to be a server-only language, while no big company is pushing JavaFX
30'14 Libraries by Pedro
- https://www.jfx-central.com/people/p.vieira
- https://foojay.io/today/new-java-javafx-library-fxskins-released/
32'52 The many available JavaFX libraries
- https://www.jfx-central.com/libraries
35'34 Mobile development with JavaFX
- https://start.gluon.io/
- https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate
39'05 JavaFX versus JavaScript frameworks
41'12 Introduction Sean
42'16 Trinity application
- https://foojay.io/today/visualizing-brain-computer-interface-data-using-javafx/
47'20 Sean thanks guests and community
48'50 Pedro and Dirk about their libraries used in applications
- https://twitter.com/potus/status/1422282055715594245
51'42 JavaFX developers are working hard on amazing stuff and don't have time to promote their work
56'00 Oracle announced they will distribute builds of JavaFX
57'19 Next versions of JavaFX
59'05 Conclusion