In part 1 of this series, we looked into the new design of JFX Central, the place to be for all JavaFX info. JFX Central is a not-for-profit team effort. Many people are involved, and any issue or pull request provided by anyone from the JavaFX community helps to improve and extend the website, application, and data. I reached out …

I recently read the free book OpenJDK Migration for Dummies by Simon Ritter. Simon is the Deputy CTO at Azul Systems. Azul has its own OpenJDK distribution which also has commercial flavors. So, obviously, my first thought was, “Well, of course, he’s going to say nice things about Azul’s JDK distribution and try to sell it everywhere”. But, to my …

Shai Almog’s “Java Basics: A Practical Introduction to Full Stack Java” more than lives up to its title. And how could it be otherwise, with its highly Java driven and opinionated author having a track record going back to leading Java mobile efforts all the way back to Sun Microsystems. Thoroughness and Ambition The thoroughness and ambition of the book …