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In this article I demonstrate how to implement the Comparable and Comparator interfaces in Java. Both of these interfaces are used to control the order in which objects in Collections and Arrays are sorted. I additionally discuss when you might want to use one over the other depending on use cases.
In this How To article I demonstrate implementing scene transition, or view change, animations in a JavaFX application. In my opinion it is these types of finishes that help to provide a well polished and professional experience to users. As developers we are lucky in that the JavaFX UI framework makes it really easy to providing this enhanced user experience.
In this article I demonstrate using the new HTTP Client API introduced in Java 11 to consume RESTful web services in conjunction with the popular Google Gson serialization library. As a demonstration aid I utilize a JavaFX desktop app for inspecting and displaying key HTTP Request / Response data accessible via the HTTP Client API.
In this How To article I demonstrate implementing the ChoiceBox
In this How To article I demonstrate using the try-with-resources Java construct and compare it to the traditional try-finally paradigm. Both of these approaches aim to solve the problem of making sure resources get properly closed to avoid resource leaks but, this article intends to help make the case for why try-with-resources is preferrable.
The web has been an entropic explosion of data onto the world and, in recent years it has been shown that enormous value can be gleaned from even seaminly innocuous text data such as the blog post you're reading now. In this article I demonstrate how to use the Jsoup Java library to fetch and parse text data from web pages paired with simple query and display functionality wrapped in a JavaFX desktop app, named ScraperFX, running on OpenJDK 12.
In this article I demonstrate a novel Node.js package named PyNode used to invoke Python code within a Node.js application and, more importantly, receive Python return types in the calling Node.js application. To facilitate demonstrating this awesomeness I use the popular scikit-learn Python library to load the included California Housing dataset from the 1990 US Census and build a Linear Regression model for predicting home values within a Express.js application.
In this article I present an argument for using static factory methods to create objects (class instances) in Java, as opposed to the traditional new keyword and constructor duo, for the purpose of providing clarity, flexibility and, maintainability in designing Object Oriented programs.
In this How To article I demonstrate some of the different ways that JavaFX dialogs and alerts are built and controlled. As a learning and exploration aid the code samples in this article have been integrated into a larger JavaFX application, JavaFX Dialog Explorer, that demonstrates usability of the various dialogs and alerts discussed as well as sources the various parts of this article's code snippets along with the official JavaFX 11 documentation using the WebView component.
In this final article of an introductory series on building desktop apps using JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse, and Scene Builder I refactor the previously built random number app using FXML along with the amazing Scene Builder design tool from Gluon. JavaFX's FXML views provide an excellent way to separate out UI presentation from the behavior and logic coded into controllers and models. When paired with Scene Builder the experience translates into efficient prototyping and full on design of UIs.
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