Johan's blog
JavaFX Open SourceFriday 30 Jul 2010 at 15:36
I signed the petition to Open Source the JavaFX Platform. I think the benefits of Open Sourcing JavaFX can be huge, both for Oracle and the JavaFX community. The example of Glassfish, where the open community-approach leads to high quality software while still allowing a commercial model, can be followed by JavaFX.
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RedFX: connecting JavaFX to the Enterprise
Thursday 10 Jun 2010 at 20:00
A couple of months ago, I started to work on RedFX (http://redfx.org), a framework that enables an easy connection between JavaFX client-based code and Java Enterprise based backend code. I strongly believe that the connection between JavaFX and the enterprise in general is an important aspect in the chances of success for JavaFX.
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Glassfish 3.0.1 on Amazon EC2: performance and scaling
Friday 28 May 2010 at 10:38
Last week, our partner IvoxTools launched 3 voting tests, based on LodgON's DaliCompare software. Performance and scalability were two of the main requirements, and we realized this using a promoted build of Glassfish 3.0.1 and leveraging the Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2).
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Map rendering in JavaFX
Friday 26 Mar 2010 at 13:45
I have been writing location-based software for a long time. In this area, JavaFX has some nice benefits that allows you to write map-related software easily. As a very simple example, I wrote a map renderer that renders tiles generated by the OpenStreetMap project.
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Using Glassfish Embedded in offline mode
Sunday 07 Feb 2010 at 10:46
I have been using Glassfish Embedded (or is it Embedded Glassfish) in a customer project recently. At first, I just considered it as a customer project, but now that I think about it, the concept of Glassfish Embedded opens lots of possibilities.
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JavaFX chat application for focus groups
Friday 22 Jan 2010 at 15:56
Over the last months, we have worked on an application that allows companies and organizations to chat with a dedicated focus group in a controlled environment. We already have some users for this, e.g. a marketing company that wants to get the first impressions from users on a new campaign. The chat client is written in JavaFX and the backend runs on Glassfish v3 with Comet support enabled.
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