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JavaFX: Space Invaders in less than 175 LOC
With the current version of the API I’m at less than 175 LOC for Space Invaders. I’ve got lot’s of “Functional Interfaces” in my APIs that can be converted to Lambda Expressions ...
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 ...
Testing Expected Exceptions with JUnit Rules
This post shows how to test for expected exceptions using JUnit. Let’s start with the following class that we wish to test: public ...
Java 7: Fork/Join Framework Example
The Fork/Join Framework in Java 7 is designed for work that can be broken down into smaller tasks and the results of those tasks combined to produce the final result. In general, classes ...
Leveraging MOXy in your Web Service via JAX-WS Provider
In previous articles I demonstrated how EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) is directly integrated into the JAX-WS implementations in WebLogic (as of 12.1.1) and in GlassFish (as of 3.1.2). In ...
Understanding the Play Filter API
With Play 2.1 hot off the press, there have been a lot of people asking about the new Play filter API. In actual fact, the API is incredibly simple: trait ...
EasyCriteria 2.0 – JPA Criteria should be easy
In the post today we will see about the new version of the framework named EasyCriteria. At the end of this post we will see what is to come here in the blog. Unfortunately the JPA ...
A minimal JavaFX Presentation (in JavaFX)
If you want to do a presentation about JavaFX, it’s very handy to do the presentation itself in JavaFX. This way you can easily show your examples without leaving the presentation. ...
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 ...
Increased compile-time safety with phantom types
Introduction Using phantom types is a very simple technique that can be used to increase the compile-time safety of code. There are a lot of potential use cases with different levels ...
