Recently I have been experimenting with the combination of JavaFX and Kotlin. As Kotlin also runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and is a very close sister of Java, the switch is straightforward. I’m not making full use of what Kotlin can offer (non-blocking coroutines for example) as this is still a learning path for me… But I want to show you in this tutorial the difference in code style.

In the next video in this “JFX In Action” series, I talked with Maciej Gorywoda about FxCalculator, an Android app created with Scala and JavaFX you can find in Google Play. About Maciej Gorywoda Maciej is the Product Marketing Manager in the IntelliJ Scala team at JetBrains. As a Scala Ambassador, he teaches Scala and makes its community more beginner-friendly.

In August, our family vacation brought us to Kazakhstan. An important trip, as it is the birth country of our (now) 14y son. It was over 13 years that we had been there and we planned to go back earlier, but some stupid virus messed up everyones life a few years ago… So finally, early this year, we decided to start organizing our trip.

I’m one of those people with boxes full of devices, waiting to be used in experiments… And from time to time, I dive into those boxes to fill in the gaps in between other tasks. So these are the results of my first Raspberry Pi Compute Module experiments! This blog post is also explained in this video:

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of August 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via links@jfx-central.com. Core Pedro Duke shared: “RichTextArea control is now available for testing in the JavaFX incubator module.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of July 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Core A message by Kevin Rushforth on the openjfx-dev@openjdk.org mailing list shows the Java/JavaFX release train is approaching the next station ;-): “Bump the version number of JavaFX to 24. I will integrate this to master as part of forking the jfx23 stabilization branch, which is scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

Last week I was working on a blog post about Azul Zulu with JavaFX support for ARM systems, like the Raspberry Pi. As you can see in this video, I found out my little test application with a lot of “bouncing balls” started losing performance on the Raspberry Pi with more than 1000 of those balls.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of June 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Core New JavaFX 23 Early-Access Builds are available on jdk.java.net/javafx23. Friedhold Matz shared a screenshot showing that WebView in JavaFX 22 now works with GraalVM 22+36.1. Applications Christopher Schnick shared screenshots: “XPipe 9.4 comes with a JavaFX markdown view for notes that works through the WebView.

In the next video in this “JFX In Action” series, I talked with Robert Ladstätter about LogoRRR, an application written with Scala and JavaFX. About Robert Ladstätter Robert is Group Leader for the Software Team at Nextsense GmbH (part of Hexagon) and develops software with Scala and JavaFX. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

These are all the links of my presentation at BeJUG in Waregem, Monday, July 24, 2024. Lessons Learned from JavaOnRaspberryPi, the Potential of Bits and Bytes, Cost and Eco-Efficiency I started experimenting with Java on the Raspberry Pi a few years ago because I wanted to learn if I could control electronic components with my favorite programming language.