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JavaFX Script : Major Update, Compiler Incubator Project and more

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posted Sunday, 22 July 2007
>  JavaFX Compiler Project Launched.  There is a new compiler project for JavaFX Script that was launched.  The OpenJFX Compiler Project is a new incubator project that will focus on creating a JavaFX Script compiler that will translate JavaFX Script into JVM class files (bytecode).  This compiler will leverage and extend the JDK's javac compiler.  This is pretty exciting news.  You can find more info on it here.

>  JavaFX Script Update.  Besides the launch of the above project a new and major update of JavaFX Script is now available.  Included in the update is availability of Casual - an instant messaging client written in JavaFX Script.  You can find it here.  There is also a new SVG to JavaFX Translator Demo which converts an SVG document into a single JavaFX class. More on that here.  JavaFXPad features are now integrated into the NetBeans 6.0 JavaFX plugin. There are now updated plugins for NetBeans 5.5 and NetBeans 6.0 (M9 and up).  You can read more on the update here.

  

>
 What I'm Seeing in China. I am now in Kunming, China. The following is an extremely condensed view of what I am experiencing.   Unlike Hong Kong and Shenzhen when I arrived there was a cool wind blowing.  I thought I was back in Seattle.  It was a nice moderate temperature.  I do not have the easy access to the internet that I had before - so this covers a few areas I visited.  Kunming is a crossroads- it is very close to Hanoi, Bangkok, Myanmar and generally Southeast Asia.  I have delayed going to Beijing until next year.  This has given me a chance to vist a number of smaller cities and villages in Yunnan.  Next stop on my trip was Jinhong.
Jinhong is great.  A smaller city toward the edge of China's border. Though I have never visited Thailand - it is clear this area has a sort of identity blend between China and Thailand.  As well many shopkeepers in one district come from Mynamar.  Some of the houses are Thai-style and some Thai foods are to be had. What is prevalent is a written language that looks like Thai - but I am told is not exactly Thai.  Signs appear with both Kanji and this other written form.  Farmers grow bananas, mango, pinapple, manogsteen and a number of other Tea
fruits which are sold on the roadside.  Oh - and as if learning Mandarin or Cantonese were not enough - the different cultural minorities like the Ani have their own language.  There is long red river (LangCang)  that flows though the areas and I am told flows on to Myanmar and Thailand.  This area has been a bit of a problem for China as there is a constant flow of illegal drugs (and with that drug flow a number of other
problems) that flow into China from Myanmar. Jinhong is a vibrant city - lots of shops.  Shops open up late in the evening because the area is so hot during the day.  In the evening we went to a great restaurant with folk singing from Ani (or may be spelled Hani) a  minority in China).  The Ani owner had been laid off from hotel work two years before and decided to open her own restaurant and it has turned into a great success.  It is an outdoor restaurant that has separate outdoor spaces - rooms with large open windows for dining.  To the south of JingHong is a small town named Ganlamba which provides a view into Dai-lifestyle, Dai is one of China's  minorities. This town offers a view into Dai culture - Thai-style, Buddihist temples, foods and other aspects. Traveling back toward Kunming is Si Mao (which is in a tea-growing city) between Kunming and Jinghong I visited a great tea shop and had various cups of (baked and unbaked)  Sign
Pu-er tea ( a red tea) which is grown in the area (in fact we passed the city named Pu-er were the tea is grown.  One tea in the shop was "Revolution tea" which brings back memories  to those
Tea Fields  that lived during that time.  The shop was run Mr. Wai with his two daughers and two sons.  It is a great shop - a world of its own that draws you into the world of tea.  In this area there are miles and miles of tea fields and the economy of the region revolves around tea.  Even in the small cities you see lots of growth.  One of the interesting aspects of my trip to Jinhong was a hike through a tropical forest - monkeys!

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