Archive for the 'Java' Category

JavaFX platform – a declarative Java-based AJAX alternative?

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Sun has introduced the JavaFX platform, which looks like a bit of fun. It’s declarative, statically typed, and uses embedded HTML, so it seems to be a lot easier to develop than Swing. The openjfx community site has some interesting examples, but none are based in the browser (all in window forms), so I’ll have to have a play. There are some demos on the main page of the community site as well.

totally gridbag

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

I was looking for GUI designers for Eclipse (because Sian-lee’s got me thinking about Java) and found this animated blog entry about the GridBag layout manager.