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
- 17'34 CAD application by Petro
- 18'42 Applications by Dirk
- 19'43 jfx-central.com, a showcase for JavaFX
- 24'46 JavaFX in the browser
- 27'01 Java is considered to be a server-only language, while no big company is pushing JavaFX
- 30'14 Libraries by Pedro
- 32'52 The many available JavaFX libraries
- 35'34 Mobile development with JavaFX
- 39'05 JavaFX versus JavaScript frameworks
- 41'12 Introduction Sean
- 42'16 Trinity application
- 47'20 Sean thanks guests and community
- 48'50 Pedro and Dirk about their libraries used in applications
- 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