Category Archives: Eclipse

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

As part of e(fx)clipse we are implementing a custom CSS-Editor based upon Xtext. We have a grammer of CSS-Specification so that we can parse CSS-Files, the interesting part though e.g. which properties are available, what values they can have is … Continue reading →

There’ve been some requests from people to use the SVG to FXML converter outside my e(fx)clipse project. I’m happy to announce that the latest nightly builds provide a standalone version of the converter. Useage is quite simple: will produce an … Continue reading →

I almost forgot that a video was recorded at this years Vienna DemoCamp. (The talk is/was in german!) You can find my video at http://vimeo.com/47109493 if you read this through a aggregator.

Inspired by a recent thread on e(fx)clipse user forum “Why some things don’t work out-of-the-box when using JavaFX instead of SWT”. I think its time to take a look at the current state of JavaFX 2.2 on OSGi. The first … Continue reading →