Author Archives: Tom Schindl
If it quacks like …
I guess many know the saying If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. In our industry things get advertised to be simple, without feature bloat, … … Continue reading
How I generate the JavaFlight Recorder Docu
From a tweet von Gunnar Morling A very useful API improvement merged to #JfrUnit: type-safe access to all the JFR event types and their attributes in assertions (generated from defs at https://t.co/iKIl0xIMuF)! Big shout-out to Federico Mariani (@croway_) for this … Continue reading
Building a cmd-line application to notarize Apple applications using Quarkus and GraalVM Native Image support
So I’ve been searching for a long time for a small side project where I could give Quarkus’ Native-Image support a spin. While we are using Quarkus in JDK mode in almost all of our server applications there was no … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 3.7.0 is released
We are happy to announce that e(fx)clipse 3.7.0 has been released. This release contains the following repositories/subprojects: runtime-shared: https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/runtime-shared-released/3.7.0/ runtime: https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/runtime-released/3.7.0/ tooling: https://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-released/3.7.0/ There are almost no new features (eg the new boxshadow) but only bugfixes who are very important … Continue reading
Browser like BoxShadow for JavaFX coming with e(fx)clipse 3.7.0
Using BoxShadow is a very common thing in modern UIs, so it might not be suprising that designers defining UIs often also use them heavily. Unfortunately JavaFX has NO 100% compatible effect and even worse one who is closest (DropShadow) … Continue reading
JavaFlightRecorder-Event Documentation
So while exploring the JFR-Event-Stream-System I came across the problem that there’s no (human readable) documentation what JFR-Events are available in a given JDK-Version. Erik Gahlin who works on JavaFlightRecorder pointed me to a command one can use to dump … Continue reading
Observing your Quarkus Server with “JFR Event Streaming” via Websockets
Having reviewed thousands lines if code last week I had the urgent need to code something for fun and inspired by Gunnar Morlings tweets on “JFR Event Streaming – JEP 349” 📢 Very happy to announce #JmFrX, a bridge from … Continue reading
News from DriftFX: Approaching v1.0
It’s been a long time since we gave an update on DriftFX (we announced our PoC roughly 1.5 years ago) but I’m pleased to share with you that we’ve worked hard on it for the past half year to turn … Continue reading
Setting up e(fx)clipse RCP development for Java11+ and PDE
As I’m currently converting a Java-8 project to AdoptJDK-11 and JavaFX-11+ I thought it would be a good idea document the steps involved. Prequisits I assume you have installed: Eclipse 2019-12 – http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/ Installed e(fx)clipse 3.6.0 or above – https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/efxclipse … Continue reading
Slides from JavaFX-Days Zürich on e(fx)clipse APIs
If you could not attend my talk at the JavaFX-Days Zürich yesterday or you did and wanted to recap what you’ve presented. Here are the slides. I enjoyed the conference and I hope you did as well. See you next … Continue reading
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