Bits : JavaFX Script Second Tutorial, Groovy, Apple and NetBeans 6 GPLv2

posted Monday, 29 October 2007

James Weaver has another great tutorial, Your Second JavaFX Script Program - The Wonders of Binding to a Model, which shows you how to build some simple classes and objects and how to use JavaFX Scripts's bind.

If you want to learn more about Groovy, there are two new tutorials on JavaLobby. The first one, Introduction to Groovy and the second part of Introduction to Groovy both cover a good overview of Groovy.

Meanwhile, in Apple -land they know how to treat developers - first they keep them guessing about whether a Java SE 1.6 will show up, they don't bother to communicate much, then they release the old stuff (Java SE 1.5.x) in Leopard (broken!) and then they continue to say nothing. I'm sorry to say - I have had enough - unfortunately I gave them the benefit of the doubt and have a MacBook Pro which I am not updating to Leopard instead I have Parallels and I have started doing stuff on Solaris 10 (actually Nevada) using Parallels. I have a Solaris Toshiba that I will start to use more often as well. Like Michael Urban - I'm tired of the Apple Java drama. Michael wrote a nice article on JavaLobby. It's not only Michael that has had enough - alot of people are upset. The apple developer alias was on fire the past few days. It isn't only how long it takes to get the latest Java bits that's distressing - it is the way they don't communicate with developers.

And in the finally-it-happened front - the good news is that Sun has just dual-licensed NetBeans 6 under GPL v2 with Classpath Exception (and CDDL as well).

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