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CalendarFX Released

Finally! After one and a half years of on and off development work on CalendarFX I finally managed to wrap it up today and to make it available for download and licensing. If you want to take it for a spin simply visit http://www.calendarfx.com and download the distribution. The download is feature complete and only requires a license key after the trial period of several months. To start coding I suggest that you take a look at the online developer manual. It is currently quite "compressed" but will be extended over time. Ideally developers tell me which aspects of the framework [...]

By |2021-02-18T13:42:29+01:00September 24th, 2015|CalendarFX, Java, JavaFX|4 Comments

JavaFX Real-World Apps: MINT TRMS

The second real-world JavaFX application that I was involved with was developed by MINT Software Systems, a company located in Kiel, Germany. The focus of their application is on training and resource management for companies in the aviation industry (airlines). MINT is actually the reason why I got involved in JavaFX development. In early 2013 they asked me to create a version of FlexGantt for JavaFX. Until then only a Swing version existed. When they first approached me I was somewhat resistant to sign up with them because of what I had heard about JavaFX until then. But once I got into it [...]

By |2021-02-18T13:42:29+01:00September 16th, 2015|FlexganttFX, JavaFX|3 Comments

JavaFX Real-World Apps: European Broadcasting Union

I have the privilege to present several JavaFX Real-World Apps at JavaOne this year together with Alexander Casall, who works for Saxonia Systems in Dresden. In preparation of this talk we sent out a questionnaire to our customers and partners and asked them a few questions related to their project, their application, and their use of JavaFX. I thought it would be a good idea to publish their answers ahead of JavaOne to give attendees a chance to prepare themselves for the talk and also to maybe get some more feedback related to JavaFX projects out there, their size, [...]

By |2021-02-18T13:42:29+01:00September 10th, 2015|FlexganttFX, JavaFX|6 Comments

A task monitor popover

My JavaFX developer life currently has a strong focus on the popover control I wrote and contributed to the ControlsFX project. I now find use cases for it all over the place. The latest addition is a task monitor control for the JavaFX version of FlexGantt. The monitor lists the background tasks that are running to load the Gantt chart data for each row. Once again I was inspired by Apple. This time by the "downloads" popover of Safari, which looks like this. Please note the fancy gray divider lines :-)

By |2021-02-18T13:42:32+01:00December 5th, 2013|ControlsFX, FlexGantt, Java, JavaFX|0 Comments

Collapp: First Release / Looking for Testers

I finally managed to release a first version of Collapp, a solution for collaborative project planning, and now I am looking for testers / early adopters. I have been working on it on and off for the last couple of years. In part to learn more about JEE and in part to continue work on FlexGantt (online demo), a framework for creating Gantt charts. I believe that I have now reached a point where a bigger group of people could take Collapp for a ride. Anyone interested can now try the online demo or download the full installation. The online demo allows [...]

By |2021-02-18T13:42:32+01:00November 5th, 2012|Collapp, Java, Swing|2 Comments