Comments on eclipse-dev: Pimp your application L&F with UFaceKit

Hi Etienne - I'm going to create a setup instructi...

2009-01-14T18:28:00.000+01:00

Hi Etienne - I'm going to create a setup instruction tonight and add content to our web-page.

The sources are available from our SVN-Repository at http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.ufacekit.

We currently have a maven driven build which works more of less but no consumeable builds yet because we are in the middle of IP-clearance and code moving from our old repository.

Anyway to get this UFaceKit (code or binary)?I wen...

2009-01-14T18:20:00.000+01:00

Anyway to get this UFaceKit (code or binary)?

I went to the project page on Eclipse.org (http://www.eclipse.org/ufacekit/) -- there isn't much there.

I've not completely bought into JavaFax though I'm...

2009-01-14T08:59:00.000+01:00

I've not completely bought into JavaFax though I'm not against it totally. I know you can do visually good looking application. Though you can write datacentric applications - which is my main business - it more looks like it is designed for multimedia applications.

My main problems in really buying in to JavaFX are:
- Why didn't they provide a programmable Java-API - I know I can programm it in plain Java but the API makes it cumbersum when not using JavaFX-Script
- I immediately loose all the good fantastic technologies from Eclipse which integrate into each other nicely (EMF+EMF-Databinding)
- I don't know but has JavaFX a declarative story to style applications

JavaFX has its place in the technology stack and there are uses cases it is good for but not if it comes to nice looking Datacentric Desktop Applications.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing, Tom.

2009-01-14T08:51:00.000+01:00

Very cool. Thanks for sharing, Tom.

Try JavaFX - the best way to pimp you Java app the...

2009-01-14T08:05:00.000+01:00

Try JavaFX - the best way to pimp you Java app these days