Learn how to create cool desktop widgets using WidgetFX on JavaFX
We here at Marakana are fortunate enough to be able to host a presentation on WidgetFX framework, which in turn runs on Sun's shiny new JavaFX platform on February 9th in San Francisco. This is part of The San Francisco Java User Group that I help run.
The presentation will be conducted by Stephen Chin who founded the WidgetFX framework and the folks from Sun's JavaFX team will be doing the intro. It should be fun!
For those of you that don't know, WidgetFX is a new open-source framework for deploying JavaFX applications to users' desktops with the simplicity of one click installation. WidgetFX ships with several configurable and skinnable widgets and has a growing repository of user created widgets from Performance Monitors to Streaming Video.
Unlike other widget frameworks, WidgetFX is cross-platform, provides robust security, and can take advantage of existing Java and JavaFX libraries, making it ideal for enterprise deployments. Widgets written for WidgetFX can leverage all the rich media capabilities of the JavaFX platform including graphics, animation, and video.
