Foojay Podcast #9: State of JavaFX, Libraries, and Projects

JavaFX was introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 2007 and provides a platform for desktop, mobile, and embedded applications built on Java.

Libraries and software are available for the complete lifecycle of an application to run from a single codebase on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. JavaFX was originally part of the JDK, the Java Development Kit, and became a standalone technology in 2018.

The development is a joint effort between Oracle, Gluon (a small Belgian-based company), and the community.

Let’s talk about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it.

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Guests

• Pedro Duque Vieira (@p_duke )
• Sean Phillips (@seanmiphillips )
• Johan Vos (@[email protected] , @johanvos )
• Gail Anderson (@gail_asgteach )
• Dirk Lemmermann (@dlemmermann )

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected] - @frankdelporte )

Content

• 00'00 Short intro and music
• 00'16 Introduction about the topic of this podcast
• 00'57 Introduction of the guests and host
• 05'30 The state of the JavaFX/OpenJFX project
• 09'40 About the release cycle of JavaFX, which is aligned with Java (every 6 months)
• 11'52 Comparing JavaFX with Swing
• 14'12 Which of the Java UI libraries is further maintained
• 14'52 About blog posts on Foojay about JavaFX
  • https://foojay.io/today/author/gail-anderson/
• 17'34 CAD application by Petro
  • https://foojay.io/today/creating-cad-applications-with-java-and-javafx/
• 18'42 Applications developed by Dirk
• 19'43 About jfx-central.com , a showcase for JavaFX
• 24'46 JavaFX in the browser
  • https://gluonhq.com/developer-preview-for-javafx-inside-a-web-browser/
  • https://github. com/jtulach/bck2brwsr
  • https://webfx.dev/
  • https://www.jpro.one/
  • https://gluonhq.com/products/cloudlink/
• 27'01 The industry is considering Java as a server-only language. No broad support or big company is pushing JavaFX for app and web development.
• 30'14 Libraries created by Pedro
  • https://www.jfx-central.com/people/p.vieira
  • https://foojay.io/today/new-java-javafx-library-fxskins-released/
• 32'52 About the many available JavaFX libraries
  • https://www.jfx-central.com/libraries
• 35'34 Mobile development with JavaFX
  • https://start.gluon.io/
  • https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate
• 39'05 JavaFX versus JavaScript frameworks
• 41'12 Introduction Sean
• 42'16 Trinity application by Sean
  • https://foojay.io/today/visualizing-brain-computer-interface-data-using-javafx/
• 47'20 Sean wants to thank the guests and community.
• 48'50 Pedro and Dirk about their libraries being used in various applications
  • JavaFX charts in the office of the US president:
    https://twitter.com/potus/status/1422282055715594245
• 51'42 The fans of JavaFX are working hard and building amazing stuff but don’t have time to promote their work
• 56'00 About the announcement by Oracle that they now also will distribute builds of JavaFX
• 57'19 To be expected in the next versions of JavaFX
• 59'05 Conclusion