Category Archives: e(fx)clipse

e(fx)clipse nightly and >= JDK8b111

JDK8b111 has a small but essential new zip in it: You are right – finally the source-code of JavaFX is shipped with the JDK. The next nightly builds of e(fx)clipse appropiately detect the source-zip which means you can now inspect … Continue reading

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Where’s e(fx)clipse 0.9.0?

So it’s been > 6 months that we did an release of e(fx)clipse where is the first version form Eclipse.org The short answer is We have an IP-Problem The long answer is To make it super easy for our users … Continue reading

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Memoryleaks in JavaFX 2.2 TableView and friends

One of the really bad things in JavaFX 2.2 is that it has some serious memoryleaks in conjunction with TableViews. I’ve filed a bug report against it (RT-32087) to it is fairly uncertain that there’s ever going to be a … Continue reading

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JavaFX on EclipseCon Europe

I’m going to present 2 sessions on JavaFX, where I’m going to show of all the cool stuff you can do with Java8 & JavaFX8: Java on embedded and mobile devices Writing JavaFX applications useing Eclipse as IDE and runtime … Continue reading

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Convert FXML to Java as part of the build

FXML is a declarative way to define you JavaFX UIs, you can edit it by hand e.g. useing e(fx)clipse, use a DSL like FXGraph or use a WYSIWYG-Tool like SceneBuilder. At runtime a class named FXMLLoader takes the FXML and … Continue reading

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Using LESS in JavaFX

Inspired by a posting to openjfx-dev where I claimed: Using LESS in JavaFX applications is possible – I thought I should proof my statement and get LESS working in a JavaFX app. The LESS-File i’ve created for looks like this: … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse builds on hudson.eclipse.org

The transition of our sources from our github-repository to the Eclipse.org server has been finished almost since a long time and we’ve been working on our codebase since then already. The last missing bit was to migrate our maven-tycho build … Continue reading

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Using Eclipse for development on OpenJFX8 and Java8 in general

If you are following the OpenJFX development you might already know that they switched their build to JDK8 and also started using Java8 language features in their codebase (defender methods, lambdas) – see the announcement. The direct result of this … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse e4 renderers go astray (rendering Swing)

I gave some talks at EclipseCon about our e4 renderers for JavaFX and showed of how the our renderers are built and different to those you find in the SWT implementation coming with Eclipse. On the left you see how … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse and JavaFX at EclipseCon

EclipseCon NA 2013 is not far away anymore (only one week to go) – if you happen to be there and you are interested in e(fx)clipse or JavaFX in general I’ve assembled a list of talks to attend I know … Continue reading

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