Jim Weaver will present on JavaFX at the Detroit JUG on Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Jim’s been blogging and writing extensively about JavaFX since its release. His upcoming book, from APress, is in alpha (http://apress.com/book/view/1430218754). The location is HARD TO FIND, so check out this map. And my advice is to just blindly turn right at the first opportunity in spite of the fact that you think that you’re heading down an alley. It’s really the right place!
Location: ePrize, 1 ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI http://sites. google.com/ site/detroitjug/ meeting-location
RSVP to…. mckinnon.david@ ymail.com
JavaFX
The highly anticipated JavaFX™ technology and platform is essentially Sun’s approach to Adobe Flash and Microsoft’s emerging Silverlight. JavaFX lets developers play with the open source scripting, desktop, and mobile APIs offered to create dynamic, seamless visual user interfaces (UIs) that are “Flash–like” and beyond… The JavaFX technology and platform enables developers and designers to create RIAs that can run across diverse devices. The JavaFX Script programming language lets you create modern looking applications with sophisticated graphical user interfaces. It was designed from the ground up to make GUI programming easy; its declarative syntax, data binding model, animation support, and built-in visual effects let you accomplish more work with less code, resulting in shorter development cycles and increased productivity.
Speaker BIO:
James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Senior VP of Technology at Veriana Networks, Inc. and is a world-renowned “JavaFXpert” . He writes books, speaks for groups and conferences, and provides training and consulting services on the subjects of Java and JavaFX. His latest book is entitled “JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client- Side Applications” , and he is currently writing a book based upon the JavaFX SDK 1.0 release. He also posts regularly to his blog at http://JavaFXpert. com whose stated purpose is to help the reader learn JavaFX Script and other JavaFX technologies. Veriana Networks, Inc. is a management company dedicated to the development of next generation media through media creation, technology, risk management, and distribution. The global headquarters of Veriana is located in Marion, Indiana with offices in Chicago and San Diego.
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Ashok Mollin | April 16, 2009 at 9:39 am
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I attended the presentation by Jim Weaver.
He highlighted the features of JavaFX, showed examples and code (using NetBeans).
NetBeans (don’t know the version) already has the required packages for JavaFX.
Most importantly, he is developing an application in an iterative fashion.
Here is as-is from the blog site:
“To acknowledge the Detroit Java Users Group for inviting me to give a JavaFX presentation, I’m starting a project that features Detroit-born musician Bob Seger. We’ll build this project in an iterative manner together, with each post adding new functionality and improving the application’s appearance.”
You can find the above application and more tips on JavaFX at http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/ or http://javafxpert.com
Regards,
Ashok