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Xtend, JavaFX-Properties and operator overloading
JavaFX has properties you can bind to each other to keep them insync. Watch this video for a very minimal example which scales a text by dragging a slider. Now let’s look at the Xtend code used to write this … Continue reading
Almost totally crazy?
So there’s a comment on my JDT and JavaFX blog asking if it is possible to have an SWT-Port which uses JavaFX. So its time to present an even crazier thing than using JavaFX to build an IDE! You are … Continue reading
About mixing and matching JDT and JavaFX
What is the result of mixing JDT and JavaFX into one project? Right you get an Java-IDE 🙂 You don’t believe me? Then watch this short video. Freaking cool but how did I managed to get this work. First all … Continue reading
Getting started with e(fx)clipse and JavaFX
Together with the 0.0.14 release of e(fx)clipse. I’ve released 3 step by step tutorials to get you started with JavaFX in Eclipse: Configuring e(fx)clipse: In this short tutorial you’ll see how to configure e(fx)clipse to start your JavaFX experience Createing … Continue reading
It’s the small things that matter
It was at EclipseCon NA 2012 when I run into Denis Roy and mentionned that there’s a small thing that drives me crazy all time it comes to milestone weeks. The none release builds are not mirrowed and so downloading … Continue reading
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 100,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.0.7 released
UPDATE Please download the latest version from efxclipse.org So the next release 0.0.7 with a huge amount of new features is available so let’s directly dive into it them. Tooling New Wizards A JavaFX category to group all JavaFX-Wizards has … Continue reading
EclipseCon Europe: Early Bird Submission until August 3rd
If you plan to submit a proposal for EclipseCon Europe 2011 you should consider doing it today so that you are can get part of the Early Bird Selection. I’m part of the Program Committe this year and so I’m … Continue reading
Equinox, Hibernate and Concurrency
I’ve been hunting a deadlock in an application of a customer we support with our RCP, EMF and OSGi know-how and turned out be a class-loader problem because Hibernate uses Class.forName(). The application is a pure OSGi-Application acting as an … Continue reading
Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way
Some weeks ago I published how views can communicate using the EventAdmin-Service. To get things working in an 3.x application one has to write some glue code but more importantly one has to know about all those nifty things about … Continue reading