Foojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community
Foojay.io, the website for the Friends of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, …
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Video series “JavaFX In Action”, Part 5 with Cormac Redmond (KafkIO), Brian Schlining (Annotating the Deep-Sea Wildlife), Gerrit Grunwald (JavaFX Libraries), Dirk Lemmermann (JavaFX Libraries and Applications, JFX Central)
This is the next part in the series of "JavaFX in Action" interviews. Are you working on a fantastic JavaFX application? Let me know, and …
Save Time and Money by Reducing False Positives
Recently Azul announced that AVD makes it possible to identify vulnerable components on a jar file level but also on class file level.
Foojay Podcast #70: Celebrating 5 Years of Foojay
On April 25, 2020, Geertjan Wielenga published the first Foojay post. Yes, we are celebrating 5 years since the Friends Of OpenJDK website …
Foojay Podcast #63: How do we keep your Java applications up to date and secure?
Do you want to bring your system from Java 8 to 23? Did you know that Java 17 already has 13 security releases? And that you can use tools …
Foojay Podcast #52 from JCON in Cologne!
Garbage Collectors, Intelligence Cloud, Test Containers and Flaky Tests, ToxiProxy, Structured Concurrency, and Virtual Threads!
SpringBoot 3.2 + CRaC
To test the new support for CRaC in SpringBoot 3.2, let's use the SpringBoot Petclinic demo.
Video: "If I decide to stay with Oracle Java what issues will I face?"
Simon Ritter and Gerrit Grunwald answer a question that they hear repeatedly: “If I decide to stay with Oracle Java (rather than migrate to …
New: JDKMonitor
A widget on your MacOS desktop that shows the days until the next release/update of OpenJDK, and more.
Gerrit and Ivar's North America JUG Tour!
Because I will be in the US this month, I decided to do a little Java User Group tour again. Ivar Grimstad will join me!
Foojay Podcast #25: Game Development with Java, JavaFX, FXGL
Let's learn from the experts why Java and JavaFX should be on your game-development-language-list and how to get started!
JavaFinder: Keeping Track of Java Inventories
Do you ever wonder how many Java distros you've installed? Not only for development but also those bundled with the applications you use?
Porting an Existing JavaFX App to iOS
Sometimes there are JavaFX apps that I would also like to use on my iPhone but I wrote them for the desktop and... how to do that?
How to Run a Java Application with CRaC in a Docker Container
CRaC is an OpenJDK project developed by Azul to solve the problem of "slow" startup times of the JVM in a microservice environment.
Introducing the "Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint" Project
Do you want to dramatically decrease JVM startup time, from hundreds of seconds to tenths of milliseconds? Find out about Java on CRaC.
JDKMon 17.0.23 Released
JDKMon is a little tool written in JavaFX that tries to detect all OpenJDK distros installed while keeping track of updates for them.
JReleaser 0.10.0 Released!
JReleaser v0.10.0 is the last push towards 1.0.0. We'll concentrate on bug fixing and polishing from now on.
JDKMon 17.0.18 Released
Vulnerability information and TCK test status details are available and easily detectable with JDKMon 17.0.18.
JDKMon 17.0.17 Released
Point JDKMon to the folder where all your JavaFX SDK's are installed and it will check if there are any updates available.
JReleaser 0.9.0 Released!
JReleaser streamlines releases, creating GitHub/GitLab/Gitea releases and packaging binaries for Homebrew, Snapcraft, Docker, and more!
Announcement: JReleaser 0.8.0 Released!
JReleaser streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects, creates GitHub/GitLab/Gitea releases, while packaging binaries for Homebrew, …
This Just In: JReleaser 0.7.0 Released!
JReleaser is a tool that streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects. 0.7.0 is a small release as core features is mostly complete.
How To Get Your JDK As Easily As Possible!
After creating the Disco API, I had the idea to create plugins for IDEs and browsers to enable more easy JDK downloading.
Announcement: Friends of OpenJDK Podcast #1
JavaFX Skins for Android, iOS; BlockHound, for detecting cases of blocking, JEP 411, the SecurityManager deprecation, recent Snyk/Azul …
JDKMon: Your Friendly JDK Distribution Updater
JDKMon scans your computer for installed OpenJDK distributions and uses the Disco API to check whether there are updates available!
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part VII): JDK Butler
I have created an application that makes use of JavaFX custom controls. Here I'll go through the custom controls that I've created for it.
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part VI) -- Canvas Class
Drawing on the Canvas node will directly go down to the graphics hardware, making it really fast. Of course, this also comes with drawbacks!
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part V): Region Class
Learn how to create a custom Control based on the JavaFX Region class. The Region class is the class that all JavaFX controls are based on.
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part IV): Control & Skin Classes
Continuing the JavaFX custom control series, next I will show you how to create a custom control in JavaFX by using Control and Skin …
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part III) -- Extend an Existing Control
In the ongoing series on custom JavaFX controls, learn how to create a custom JavaFX control by extending an existing control.
Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part II) -- Combining Existing Controls
Last time you saw how to create JavaFX controls by playing around with CSS, today how to create a control by combining existing controls.
How to Use Custom Controls in JavaFX (Part I)
In this part, we create a custom JavaFX control by changing the style of an existing control, for example, using a JavaFX CheckBox control.