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Monday May 11, 2009
Java FX Plugin For Eclipse By JBoss - Some Screenshots
It seems like JBoss guys are working on a Java FX plugin for Eclipse. There are some screenshots available. These are actually very good news - competition is always good. Only IntelliJ is lacking Java FX support now. But who knows what happens at JavaONE :-).
Posted at 09:00AM May 11, 2009 by Adam Bien in RIA / Java FX | Kommentare[14]
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It is provided by Exadel.
But why do such a duplicated work of SUN?
Gesendet von hantsy am May 11, 2009 at 10:48 AM CEST #
Where can I find JavaFX netbeans module fo Linux?
Gesendet von jam am May 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM CEST #
Gesendet von 80.101.111.85 am May 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM CEST #
@Hantsy
"But why do such a duplicated work of SUN?"
Easy: to force Sun to provide even better support for Java FX in Netbeans, what will cause in turn the Exadel guys to improve their support as well. IntelliJ may see this and... :-)
regards,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am May 11, 2009 at 12:02 PM CEST #
@Jam,
in the NB Plugin Manager?
I'm using NB JavaFX on Mac and Win XP / Vista. No idea about Linux...
thanks!,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am May 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM CEST #
I'm almost certain that I read Sun is creating a JavaFX plugin for Eclipse too and it will be demo'd or released at JavaOne in a few weeks.
Gesendet von Ryan am May 11, 2009 at 04:27 PM CEST #
The plug-in is being developed by Exadel, not JBoss. You saw it in the JBosss RSS feed (my blog is included there).
@Hantsy: duplicate? All we have seen so far is this: http://kenai.com/projects/eplugin . There is not much there.
@Adam: I would like to see where you read that Sun is working on JavaFX plug-in. The only plug-in I know is from the link I provided above.
Gesendet von Max am May 11, 2009 at 05:04 PM CEST #
@Max where I wrote about Java FX plugins? :-)
But there is one for Eclipse written by Sun... Didn't used it yet.
thanks for your feedback!,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am May 11, 2009 at 05:23 PM CEST #
@Adam: sorry, it was @Ryan
Gesendet von Max am May 11, 2009 at 05:36 PM CEST #
http://kenai.com/projects/eplugin/pages/GettingStarted
How is the Exadel plugin different and isn`t this duplication of effort instead of contributing to the Sun open source project
Gesendet von Ryan am May 12, 2009 at 12:43 AM CEST #
This link shows that Sun released that plugin:
http://www.javafx.com/faq/#7.6
Gesendet von Ryan am May 12, 2009 at 12:47 AM CEST #
@adam
netbeans jfx plugin works on linux I use it all the time - you only have to install the mac plugin and edit a module meta info.
All media features I tried worked (mp3, and vids) on ubuntu too.
I suppose there will be a announcement for official linux support @ J1:
http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-3308
Gesendet von mbien am May 12, 2009 at 12:47 AM CEST #
I talked to JetBrains while at Devoxx about lack of FX support. They didn't seem to know if they should support it or not. They seem to have lost direction.
Gesendet von Kirk am May 12, 2009 at 07:30 AM CEST #
@Kirk,
a bit of competition may help them to find their direction again :-)
regards,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am May 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM CEST #