Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of September 2026. This was a big month with the release of JavaFX 27!

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JDK 27 arrives on 15 September 2026, and it is a feature release rather than a Long-Term Support one. That distinction matters less than it sounds: as - by Frank Delporte

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JFXCentral is a hub for JavaFX developers, offering resources like libraries, tools, tutorials, and showcases. It also curates community updates and provides a cross-platform JavaFX example app.

Tally and camera control over HDMI stopped working between a Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera and an ATEM Mini Extreme, and the cause was a Raspberry Pi on …

Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of August 2026. We took a summer break, so there was only one "Links Of The Week" this month, and it covers - by Frank Delporte

JFXCentral is a hub for JavaFX developers, offering resources like libraries, tools, tutorials, and showcases. It also curates community updates and provides a cross-platform JavaFX example app.

HMCL (Hello Minecraft! Launcher) is an open-source, cross-platform Minecraft launcher that allows you to install mods, manage modloaders, and customize the game

If someone discloses a 0-day CVE the day after a quarterly update, you could wait up to three months for a patched build. That gap is closed now. The - by Frank Delporte

A little tool written in Swift that will help you keeping your builds of OpenJDK/GraalVM up to date - HanSolo/JDK-Updater

JFXCentral is a hub for JavaFX developers, offering resources like libraries, tools, tutorials, and showcases. It also curates community updates and provides a cross-platform JavaFX example app.

I'm building MelodyMatrix with my son, an application to look at and play along with music. The app already shows a song in different views: falling - by Frank Delporte

After introducing Sheetmusic4J, two LinkedIn comments challenged me to support ABC notation and Guitar Pro files. Release 0.0.3 does exactly that, alongside a …

In an announcement on the OpenJDK Updates Mailinglist on July 20, 2026, Rob McKenna explained a change in the Oracle security release cycle for JDK - by Frank Delporte

Introducing Sheetmusic4J, a JavaFX library that renders MusicXML sheet music with a playback marker and note highlighting, built for the upcoming Learn section …

Every three months your production JDKs fall further behind on security patches. Azul closes that gap today with the July 2026 quarterly update for Azul - by Frank Delporte

Java(FX) library for sheet music. Contribute to sheetmusic4j/sheetmusic4j development by creating an account on GitHub.

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As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I've asked various suppliers to send me - by Frank Delporte

Story Horse? This post was inspired by the excellent article by WebTechie, First Test of Java on...

Books and guides for learning Aussom in depth, including Building Desktop Applications in Aussom with JavaFX.

First Banana Pi Java test compares ARM and RISC-V boards, shares OS image links, setup pitfalls, and early findings for BPI-M4 Zero and BPI-F3 development.

Foojay Podcast hits episode 100. No plan, no roadmap. It just happened. To mark the occasion, Frank turned the microphone around and invited other - by Frank Delporte

MelodyMatrix gets a brand new multilingual Hugo website built with Claude and Theia IDE, while the existing Vaadin website was reworked to backend-only …

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Java Programming for Raspberry Pi is now available in print via Amazon KDP, in both softcover and hardcover. How it got there, and why this edition stays …

2026-07-09 by Frank Delporte 1.2.5 Is Out Lottie4J 1.2.5 is released, and it’s almost entirely the payoff from the work described in Closing the Visual Gap with the Official Lottie Webplayer: once the...

Plug in your keyboard, hit record, and watch every note explode into fireworks, piano rolls, charts and light. MelodyMatrix turns raw MIDI into a live visual show.

A Lottie library is only as good as its output looks. If an animation renders differently in Lottie4J than it does in the official web player, that's a - by Frank Delporte

Running a community website is a bit like maintaining a codebase: the content that matters most is never completely done. And if you don't schedule - by Dominika Tasarz

The Call for Papers web app which allows authenticated users to submit talks and the program committee to review and rate them.

Using Azul Zulu in Docker and Paketo containers: Container Build Guide.

How Lottie4J closes the gap with the official Lottie web player: frame-by-frame comparison, JavaFX rendering fixes for gradients, mattes, and easing.

One of the biggest advantages of the Pi4J Drivers project is the ability to interact with complex hardware through simple and intuitive Java APIs. A great - by Igor De Souza