James L. Weaver

James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog For me, JavaOne 2008 was enlightening, exhilarating and exhausting.  It was great meeting colleagues that I had only known via email and JavaFX mailing lists.  I'd like to especially thank all who suffered through my JavaFX University and technica... (more)

James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog Kevin Nilson, the leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG, relayed to me the idea of creating an application in JavaFX Script that consists of a wheel that has the names of JUG attendees on it.  The wheel would revolve and land on a name, w... (more)

To wish you Happy Holidays (and if you'll permit me, a very merry Christmas) I wrote this Compiled JavaFX Script Applet (that executes in a browser).  For fast deployment I used the latest version of Java SE 6 Update 10 (formerly known as Java SE Update N, formerly known as Consume... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog I would like to publicly extend my thanks and appreciation to the talented and diligent JavaFX Script Compiler team for achieving what I consider to be a tipping point in the project.  In the last two days lots of compiled JavaFX Script feat... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog As I've mentioned before, compiled JavaFX Script is currently under development, and one of the last pieces of the puzzle is the UI features. Currently there are a few UI features that are operational in the compiled version, for example Fra... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog As I mentioned in my post a week ago, this JavaFX Puzzler will require writing a compiled JavaFX Script program. In subsequent posts on my Learning JavaFX weblog, I've provided instructions for using the OpenJFX Compiler to compile a JavaFX... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine.  If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this ... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine.  If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this ... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog The next JavaFX Puzzler will be posted at 18:00 GMT (1:00PM EST) on Wednesday, November 28, 2007.  It will be a compiled JavaFX Script puzzler, so you'll need to build the JavaFX Script Compiler in order to participate in the Puzzler. To he... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog There are several environments in which you can develop and run JavaFX Script programs. I’d like to help you become a JavaFX Script programmer in the next few minutes, so I’m going to show you the fastest route that I know of to... (more)

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures.  In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the loca... (more)