JavaFX 2.1 Beta: Improved Font Rendering
In the current JavaFX 2.1 Beta preview (Build 12), the font rendering on LCD screens improved a lot due to sub-pixel font anti-aliasing. Here are 2 screen shots from my…
Eclipse 4.x talk for JUG Ostfalen
If you are interested in the Eclipse 4.x Application Platform and happen to live close to Braunschweig (Germany), join my talk for the JUG-Ostfalen: "Was ist neu bei der Eclipse…
GWT Contacts Demo with MVP and Testing
On Monday, January 23th, I am going to talk about some cool features of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) at the OOP 2012 conference in Munich. To have a live…
My Upcoming Events & Sessions
In the next months I am going to give sessions/trainings at several conferences and other events, mostly Eclipse related. I'd be happy to meet you there. January 20th, 7:00 pm…
JavaFX 2.0, Swing & SWT Renderers for the Eclipse 4.x Application Platform
I wish you all a Happy New Year! During the last weeks I had a bit of spare time and started experimenting with new rendering engines for the Eclipse 4.x…
Eclipse 4.x RCP + JavaFX Renderer
Recently I have ported my e4 Contacts Demo to Tom Schindl's e(fx)clipse. Besides a very nice JavaFX tooling integration into the Eclipse IDE, Tom also started a JavaFX 2.0 based…
Java FX 2.0 CSS Styling
Inspired by Tom Schindl's e(fx)clipse (see his blog), I have spent some time investigating the CSS styling capabilities of JavaFX 2.0. I have to admit I like it a lot!…
Eclipse RCP Splash Screens and Java WebStart
One thing that has bothered me (and recently one of my customers) a lot was that we could not display Eclipse RCP splash screens when starting the application using Java…
JCalendar 1.4 Released
After 2 years I released a new version of my free Java date picker JCalendar. You find the download, demo and documentation of the stable release and the current integration…
Eclipse RCP Demo “MP3 Manager” Version 3.7.0 released
I recently updated my MP3 Manager Eclipse RCP demo to version 3.7.0. These things are new: * Java WebStart support (launcher see below) * New target platform Eclipse 3.7.0 * Integrated…