How to Create Secure Web Applications with Struts
Imagine building a house starting with only a pile of timber and a lump of iron, or making a bowl of spaghetti from a sack of wheat and a bag of tomatoes. The importance of having the right materials...
View ArticleKISS + Swing = RAD
Java is a great language for developing enterprise applications. It's powerful, scalable, robust, secure, and typically very complex. As a software developer, I want to solve business problems, not...
View ArticleHow AJAX Works
When I was learning how to work with AJAX, I went through a number of 101-type articles. The biggest problem with these tutorials is that the authors are trying to explain several things at once, which...
View ArticleClient-Side Java: Rolling Out JavaFX at JavaOne
JavaOne opens today and it'll be interesting to hear more about this renewed interest of Sun in Java on the client. While James Gosling and Rich Green have already provided some details on JavaFXread more
View ArticleJavaOne - JavaFX abuzz
I'm at JavaOne this week, where the talk from Sun is all about mobile, or JavaFX and JavaFX Script. I'm not sure the world needs another scripting language, but then what do I know? I know it's a bit...
View ArticleClosures in Compiled JavaFX Script
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...
View ArticleHow To Develop and Run a JavaFX Script Program Using JavaFXPad
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...
View ArticleDeveloping Your First Compiled JavaFX Script Program
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...
View ArticlePlaying with UI Features in Compiled JavaFX Script
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...
View ArticleCompiled JavaFX Script Applet - Happy Holidays!
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...
View ArticleA New Weapon in Developing Rich Client Applications
JavaFX is a scripting language that provides more powerful client applications in term of features for the user interface experience as well as being incorporated with server platform technology such...
View ArticleJFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008
There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June 2008. As the interpreted version of JavaFX was the...
View ArticleBorland Finally Dumps CodeGear Tools Division
It's only taken Borland two years but it's finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible for Borland's hereditary JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder lines as well as its new web ventures into...
View ArticleAJAX and Enterprise RIA Tools - JSF, Flex, and JavaFX
2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers...
View ArticlePet Store with JavaFX 1.0.- Part I
The goal of this article is to demo a sample Pet Store application written in JavaFX 1.0. I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone...
View ArticleJuan Carlos Soto Reaffirms Sun Microsystems’ Commitment to the Cloud
As I noted at the time, Sun’s recent announcements with respect to Cloud Computing were sadly rather overshadowed by the torrent of interest around a piece on the Wall Street Journal site the same day,...
View ArticleThere's Still a Ton Going On at Sun: Sun CEO
Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the...
View ArticleJavaOne 2009 - Highlights Live from Day One
JavaOne 2009 officially started with the opening Keynote delivered by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. The keynote included several announcements and demos presented by partners and...
View ArticleSun’s JavaOne 2009: Business As Usual
New product announcements this year included JavaFX 1.2, which includes new cross platform User Interface (UI) controls, faster application start-up, streaming media support and other performance...
View ArticleEllison at JavaOne: Myths About JavaFX, Android, and J2ME
At JavaOne, Larry Ellison has made some very encouraging statements about Oracle’s commitments to Java, JavaFX, and the mobile developer market. It is certainly good news that Oracle (i.e., Larry) sees...
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