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June 2012 Blog Posts (4)
JavaFX and SteelSeries gauges using FXML
Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as SteelSeries to JavaFX as part of the JFXtras-lab project. I can't tell you how many times since Java AWT first came out, that I have had to use meters…
ContinueAdded by Jim Clarke on June 25, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Simple example of Using Spring+JAXRS+MongoDB
FYI,
I will be expanding on it later, but might be an interesting read for some...
http://jackietutorial.blogspot.com/2012/06/springmongodbwebspherejaxrsmaven-part-1.html
Added by Jackie Gleason on June 18, 2012 at 4:01pm — No Comments
JCertif 2012 - Call For Paper : The biggest Java/Andoid Community Event in Africa !!
JCertif 2012 Call for Papers Now Open -- http://www.jcertif.com!
As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming and will take place on September 03th-09th in Brazzaville, Congo.
If you have an interesting presentation idea, we want to hear from…
Added by Max Bonbhel on June 7, 2012 at 12:48am — 1 Comment
JavaFX 2.2 Canvas
One of the cool new features of the JavaFX 2.2 developer preview release is a new Canvas node that allows you to do free drawing within an area on the JavaFX scene similar to the HTML 5 Canvas. You can download this release for Windows, Mac, and Linux from JavaFX Developer Preview.
Being adventurous, I decided to take the JavaFX Canvas for a spin around the block. In doing…
ContinueAdded by Jim Clarke on June 3, 2012 at 8:11pm — No Comments
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