Silveira’s Blog

Right in this moment you can choose between three options to develop JavaFX:

• Use the old version of JavaFX, interpreted. Not recommended.
• Use the JavaFX Milestone 3. Little bit old but more stable.
• Use the JavaFX Continuous Build. Is more dangerous but give us fresh builds.

I did this little script to download the last version of JavaFX continuos build and install it for you.

#!/bin/sh
envfile=$HOME/.bash_profile

#download and unpatch the last build of JavaFx
mkdir jfx
cd jfx
wget http://openjfx.java.sun.com/hudson/job/openjfx-compiler/lastBuild/artifact/openjfx-compiler/dist//*zip*/dist.zip
unzip dist.zip
rm dist.zip

#set files at bin folder as executable
chmod +x dist/bin/*

#add those executables to the path
echo "PATH=\$PATH:`pwd`/dist/bin" >> $envfile

Save this script as install_jfx.sh and execute it. Probably you want to execute it at you home directory. If you want to install JavaFX to root change envfile for /root/.bash_profile, if you want to install to all users change for /etc/profile. I tested this script successfully on my Ubuntu 8.04.

After that open a new terminal and try to see if javafx, javafxc and javafxdoc are available. You can test your enviroment with this simple program.

import javafx.ui.*;
import java.lang.*;

Frame {
  visible: true
  content: FlowPanel {
  content: Button {
      var n = 0
      text: bind Integer.toString(n)
      action: function() {
        n++;
      }
    }
  }
}

Save it as Counter.fx, compile with javafxc Counter.fx and so execute it with javafx Counter.fx.

To know more, take a look into the preliminary JavaFX API or in the article Using JavaFX GUI Toolkit.

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Rafael Carneiro, Tarso Bersa, Rafael Ponte and me, after 8 hours of bus travel, arrived in Juazeiro do Norte to talk at the first JavaDay there.

• Rafael Carneiro talked about Java Certification.
• Tarso Bersa talked about Spring Framework for JEE applications.
• I talked about NetBeans 6.
• Rafael Ponte talked about JavaServer Faces.

We answered a lot of questions and gave lot of gifts. I also showed the Sun Academic Initiative, which they are already subscribed. We also showed several opportunities they can participate with CEJUG like free vouchers or a free travel for Belgium.

Some pictures we took. These ones during the bus travel. We saw a nice sunrise through beautiful landscapes.

We playing guitar hero. The city have their own shopping with games, restaurant and cinema.

The main atraction at Juazeiro is a statue of Padre (Priest) Cícero with 7 meters itself and more 8 meters of base. Pilgrimage to this statue takes place in his honour every November, attracting thousands of followers. The city’s economy is highly influenced by those travelers devotes.

There’s a museum with several personal objects from Padre Cicero. People go there in order to thanks for miracles. If you got your a part of your body cured, of place there a wooden replica of that part of your body. If you got a car, you place a wooden car or a photo, and so on. There is thousands, maybe millions, of objects theres.

You can see all photos at Carneiro’s album or in my album.