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JavaFX and JQuery Widgets with Zembly

Since, I attended the BOJUG meet on JavaFX in Dec 2008 ,I was very excited about trying it out. Finally I managed to get some time to work on it.I found it easy and fun to learn as it is almost like writing Java2D code in a more sophisticated form. I was looking out for ways to create something that can be shared across blogging and other social networking sites something like flash widgets but not in flash.Being a Java developer it looks very scary to me ;). Then almost a month and a half back I got to know about this new browser based social programming environment Zembly from Sun Microsystems . I was not fully aware of how these widgets are published simultaneously on various social networks.But after exploring Zembly I found creating these kind of widgets very easy and interesting.My interest dragged me to write these two small apps which are published on Blogger and iGoogle using Zembly. Added below is a JavaFX piano which can be played through keyboard(use Keys:A,W,E,D,R,T,G,