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Recent Java 8 News
Java 8 developments are starting to dominate the news again. Recent posts cover extending Milestone 7 of JDK 8 to ensure its feature complete, the Date/Time API now available in Java ...
Styling JavaFX Pie Chart with CSS
JavaFX provides certain colors by default when rendering charts. There are situations, however, when one wants to customize these colors. In this blog post I look at changing the colors ...
JavaFX Coming Soon to an Android or iOS Device Near You?
There has been big news recently in the world of JavaFX regarding many more components of JavaFX being open sourced as advertised at JavaOne 2012. In February Open Source Update, Richard ...
Hello GroovyFX
GroovyFX brings together two of my favorite things: Groovy and JavaFX. The main GroovyFX Project page describes GroovyFX as ‘[providing] a Groovy binding for JavaFX 2.0.’ ...
Hello Camel: Automatic File Transfer
Apache Camel is described on its main web page (and in the Camel User Guide) as ‘a versatile open-source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.’ ...
JavaFX 2 XYCharts and Java 7 Features
One of my favorite features of JavaFX 2 is the standard charts it provides in its javafx.scene.chart package. This package provides several different types of charts out-of-the-box. ...
Hamcrest Containing Matchers
The Hamcrest 1.3 Javadoc documentation for the Matchers class adds more documentation for several of that class’s methods than were available in Hamcrest 1.2. For example, the ...
Significant Software Development Developments of 2012
I have written before (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) on my biased perspective of the most significant developments in software development for that year. This post is the 2012 version ...
Groovy: Multiple Values for a Single Command-line Option
One of the many features that makes Groovy an attractive scripting language is its built-in command-line argument support via CliBuilder. I have written about CliBuilder before in the ...
Groovy JDK (GDK): Date and Calendar
I have looked at some highly useful methods available in Groovy GDK‘s extensions to the Java JDK in blog posts such as Groovy JDK (GDK): File.deleteDir(), Groovy JDK (GDK): Text ...
