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So I couldn’t resist – and just for Chris Aniszczyk – another blog post on this topic. So I wrapped my head around this builder stuff of xtend and with the sources provided by Sven at github I managed to write a small builder for JavaFX. Here’s the builder: and this an resulting example code: [...]

So after having used xtend for a while as a pure templating language I thought it’s time to explore how it can be used when programming JavaFX. JavaFX 2.x API is already designed to be used for lambda expression support which will come with Java 8 so e.g. all event handlers accept a SAM type [...]

Just right before EclipseCon 2012 I’ve released e(fx)clipse 0.0.13. On the feature side the main focus was on runtime, on the tooling I fixed some bugs which hopefully improves your coding experience (especially with fxml-Files). All in one downloads To say the all in one-downloads are well received is an understatement – they are a [...]

It looks like a lot of people are interested in using JavaFX into one of their Eclipse Views. I infer that from the people visiting my blog from a stackoverflow question. The problem people face is that in Eclipse JavaFX has to run in an OSGi-Environment and JavaFX is not prepared for that leading to [...]

Thanks to Jasper Potts – e(fx)clipse has a first logo. Jasper was nice enough to provide me an SVG-Version of it and so I was able to use my SVG-To-FXML-Converter to make some fun stuff with the logo he provided. After the conversion I rearranged some parts in the FXML to group them and make [...]

e(fx)clipse will be shown at EclipseCon 2012 Hot New Product Showcase reception. The problem is that I’m not a designer and don’t yet have a logo. So I’m hoping designers are around who could help me getting a logo for e(fx)clipse. Ideally it is a mashup of the Eclipse Logo with JavaFX integrated into it. [...]

I guess all users of smartphones (Android, iPhone, …) know the scrollable lists you have there. While working on the example application for EclipseCon North America I thought it might make my example application look cooler if I could have it such an list. After hacking the whole sunday I have an initial running version. [...]

A little bit later than scheduled here’s the next release. This time the number of new features is smaller than in previous releases but there still some small nice additions. Let’s look into it. Update to latest upstream modules The new release comes with Eclipse 4.2M5. I also looked into up-dating the subclipse integration but [...]