Packt Publishing recently invited me to review the book JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration. I readily accepted because I have not used or even read about JBoss in several years and welcomed the opportunity to read about its latest features.

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By all accounts I have read and others have expressed, OSCON Java 2011 was a tremendous success.

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Perhaps the biggest news in all of Javadom this past week was the release of NetBeans 7.1.

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The pair class is familiar to those of us who have used C++ for any considerable length of time. Although there has been talk of adding it to Java as a standard part of the SDK, it is a somewhat controversial topic.

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JavaFX 2.0 provides the CheckBox (notice capital 'B' versus AWT's Checkbox's lowercase 'b') control that supports three states ("undefined", "checked", and "unchecked").

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There are several places within the JavaFX 2 documentation that the sample application Ensemble is referenced. Ensemble is the largest JavaFX sample application provided in the JavaFX 2.0 samples. Acquiring the JavaFX 2 samples, using the JavaFX 2 samples, and learning from the JavaFX 2 samples are the subjects of this post.

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I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it would be Java. However, over the years, I've used C and C++ fairly extensively and have used and learned enough to be dangerous about several other languages including shell scripting languages, Perl, JavaScript, Pascal, C#, Ruby, JRuby, Groovy, PHP, and Python.

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In this blog post, I look at a very simple JavaFX 2.0 application that loads an image provided on the command-line and presents it in both normal form and with JavaFX 2.0's SepiaTone effect applied to it. The simple application presents the two images side-by-side for dramatic effect.

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In Jonathan Giles's post An FX Experience Retrospective, he starts by looking at the history of JavaFX and focuses on "what has happened in the world of JavaFX" in 2011.

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In this post, I briefly summarize my "eight" most popular "2011" posts (six actually posted in 2011 and two posted in late 2010). The two common themes of these posts seem to be broad applicability and future focus. I expected a few of these posts to do well and was surprised that some of these did as well as they did (and surprised that some others did not make the list).

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JavaFX 2.0 allows for inclusion of HTML code within a JavaFX application using JavaFX 2.0's WebView and WebEngine classes from the javafx.scene.web package. This post looks at a very simple example of how this can be done.

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One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT. Several online resources document how this is done.

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JavaFX 2.0 provides built-in capabilities for generating charts, a capability found within the javafx.scene.chart package. In this post, I look at creating bar charts and a scatter chart in using JavaFX 2.0. During the course of this post, I use Guava and some Java 7 features along the way.

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It was announced earlier this month that the JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview Edition (early access) for Windows is available for download (previously available for Mac).

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As I did in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, I summarize some of the software development events of 2011 that I find most significant.

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