The endless repaint.

This application has won the RIA Exemplar Challenge Award organized by Java Champion Jim Weaver, Stephen Chin and Jasper Potts check the winner announcement here and here Being a Java EE developer,I am always attracted towards the "grass on the other side" :P . I have been working on a JavaFX app, which tries to solve a typical engineering problem of loading cargo containers to a BeechCraft 1900C cargo airplane. Although the aircraft data and equations are taken from the authentic FAA weight and balance handbook (see Chapter 7 , page 60) , this application is not intended to be used for realtime cargo loading as it is just for JavaFX demo purposes and does not guarantee the accuracy of data and calculations. I must say again, being a newbie to the language its fun to learn JavaFX. Although I still regret not visiting Amy Fowlers blog post during the early stages of this app . Shown below is the screen-shot of the work done till date. Shown on the upper left side of...

In one of my previous projects I was involved in developing a 2D line chart which shows the center of gravity of large cargo aircrafts like Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 etc .We used Java2D with more than a thousand lines of code and Richfaces paint2D to draw it as an image on a JSF web page .Being a newbie to the language, I was just wondering how much effort can it take to develop such a chart in JavaFx . I finally managed some time to try it out. So this chart is a Weight vs. Index chart where weight of the aircraft is on the y-axis and change in center of gravity index is on the x-axis. The polygons drawn inside the chart reflect the structural limits of an aircraft. If your current (index,weight) point falls outside these polygons in a certain condition, than the aircraft cannot fly because it is either nose-heavy or tail-heavy so it will crash. I was able to create the chart shown in the image above with almost 105 lines of code excluding the data inputs,in almost 3 hours. Java...

Related to discussions going on in BoJUG , I was tempted to develop a Proof-of-Concept for using JavaFX as view technology in a web application backed by spring and hibernate stack . Well Spring already provides remoting support for communicating to rich clients. Currently,spring supports four remoting technologies . In my application, I am using Spring's HTTP Invoker which allows for Java serialization via HTTP, supporting any Java interface (just like the RMI invoker). The corresponding support classes are 1) org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean is a factory bean for HTTP invoker proxies. It behaves like the proxied service when used as bean reference, exposing the specified service interface. Serializes remote invocation objects and deserializes remote invocation result objects. 2) org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter is an HTTP request handler that exports the specified service bean as HTTP invoker service endpoint,...

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,...