Author Archives: Tom Schindl

Automated Eclipse Project creation and deployment (for JavaFX)

Our believe is that the best runtime techology is meaningless without proper tooling support so if you’ve ever developed an Eclipse Plug-in to allow easier adoption of a runtime technology you might have faced the same problem I’m facing with … Continue reading

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Animating the JavaFX PieChart a bit

I’m with a customer this week in Swiss doing a workshop on e4. Tomorrow is the last day and well most likely will at least take a short look how they can integrate JavaFX 2.x into their e4-SWT applications e.g. … Continue reading

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JavaFX shader language JSL or writing an editor for a language you don’t know

This is just a very short post on how cool I think Xtext is so to implement an editor for a DSL. The JavaFX team released this week a DSL to author shaders for OpenGL and DirectX named JSL (announcement … Continue reading

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fxpackager for JavaFX-OSGi-Apps

When creating RCP applications using SWT the product-Export allows you to create a native launcher artifact. The problem with this native artifact is that on OS-X this native launcher and JavaFX don’t like each other. JavaFX is all about a … Continue reading

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EclipseCon JavaFX Demo App Videos

At EclipseCon Europe 2012 I’ve presented some demo applications written on top of JavaFX 2 and Eclipse techologies developed in the e(fx)clipse project. e4 on JavaFX This small applications shows how easy it is to theme e4 JavaFX apps, how … Continue reading

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EclipseCon Europe 2012 Slides

For those who have attended my EclipseCon Talks on JavaFX and Eclipse. You can get access to my slides from here: JavaFX, OSGi and e4: slides e(fx)clipse – Eclipse Tooling for JavaFX 2: slides There are videos recorded from the … Continue reading

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Eclipse Techs on steroids

If you liked this blog post you’ll really enjoy watching this short screen cast showing how top notch Java-Technlogies from Eclipse (e4, orion, JDT-Core) and Oracle (JavaFX) can work together seemlessly. I had to tweak the orion ContentAssistent-Code a bit … Continue reading

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J1 talk on e(fx)clipse

For those who are interested in the slides I used today presenting e(fx)clipse tooling and runtime at JavaOne. You can grab the slides here. Hope you enjoyed it.

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e(fx)clipse 0.1.1 released

I’m pleased to announce that e(fx)clipse 0.1.1 is released just before leaving to JavaOne. Let’s jump directly to list of new features Distros I’ve update the 4.2 distro to latest 4.2.1 builds and update all other plugins (Subclipse 1.8.16, GEF … Continue reading

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e4 on JavaFX and JemmyFX

Upon request on the e(fx)clipse forum I’ve invested time for upcoming e(fx)clipse release to allow JUnit-Testing e4 JavaFX applications using Jemmy and JemmyFX. The thing that took most of my time was to understand how Jemmy works and can be … Continue reading

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