Teaching novice computer programmers how to turn their ideas into working applications
My Photo Library is an application for people to store and tag photos on their local storage device. Enables the easy retrieval of photos using the search filter feature to search by tag and or date range.
Continue reading “Photograph Library”Data Report is a JavaFX Management Information System. It produces a visual representation of the information using pie, bar, and line charts.
This Java Desktop application is designed to allow the user to create checksum digits for the end of Primary Account Numbers (PAN) numbers as found on the front of bank, credit and loyalty cards.
How to build an executable file for a Java 11 GUI application using Launch4J
Before we look at the how we should ask why. The aim is to package up our Java application so that we can distribute it to others. We want them to be able to launch the application without having to install anything else.
Therefore, we are looking to deliver our Java application along with the Java Runtime Environment and any external libraries required for it to run. To do this needs a few tools:
Continue reading “Creating an executable file with Launch4J and Java 11”Since Java 9, there is no longer a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) shipped as part of the Java Development Kit. The JDK provides a tool to allow you to create your own JRE. In this article, we will look at using this tool to create our own JRE.
Continue reading “Using JLink to build a Java 11 JRE”
The application enables a sun lounger business to keep track of sun loungers available for booking during the day. Continue reading “SunLounger”
A Java desktop application to decode JSON Web Tokens. Built using OpenJDK 11 and OpenJFX 11. The team members who built the application were Klaus Cepani, Jorid Spaha, Josh James and John McNeil.
The source code for the application demonstrated here can be found Continue reading “JWT Decoder”
For those people who spend their time visiting people this application is perfect. Rendezvous allows you to enter all your appointments. As the appointment time approaches a text reminder is sent to the person you are visiting to remind them of the appointment. The month, week, and day calendar views allow you to see upcoming appointments.
Breakout4J is a JavaFX single-player game based on the old Atri games console game called Breakout. This is the application that students build from the ground up as part of the online course “How to design and build your first real application in JavaFX”.
This is a follow-on article for building Java desktop applications using OpenJDK11 and OpenJFX 11. See
In this article, we are, like the previous articles, going to build the whole application using the command line.
The software tools we will use in this article are:
See the earlier article Making a Windows MSI from a Java 11 and JavaFX 11 Desktop application for more information about these tools
What is different here is firstly the application is going to take advantage of the modular system introduced in Java 9. Secondly, we are going to build a Java Runtime Environment that includes the JavaFX modules our application requires. We will then package up the Java application with the JRE however, this will leave us with a JRE for any other Java applications providing the modules they need are included in the JRE.
Continue reading “Creating an MSI installer from a JavaFX 11 modular desktop application”