Category Archives: Eclipse

JDK8b115 has a major regression in that it does not hold the SWT-Integration – If you use e(fx)clipse or integrate JavaFX into SWT wait for b116 which brings it back.

Starting with build 113 of Java8 the FX-Team made the wise decision to move the SWT integration into its own jar which is not on any default classpath. This is a very wise decision because the javafxrt.jar is on the … Continue reading →

The latest nightly builds include support to easily develop JavaFX applications that run on iOS with the help of RoboVM. I’ve written a tutorial on our wiki and recorded a video how this is done. All the pieces (JavaFX, RoboVm) … Continue reading →

The last few days I’ve preparing: myself 🙂 e(fx)clipse for EclipseCon Europe where I have a talk in which I show how e(fx)clipse allows you to develop applications for embedded and mobile. The runtime stack is not there yet (animation … Continue reading →

The big news yesterday was that the JDT-Team announced that they are publishing nightly EA builds of their Java8 branch. Many/most people who use JavaFX are useing Java8, so I went a head and packaged it directly into our nightly … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →