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”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.
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”
As a software developer, my focus is on building Java Desktop applications for the Windows operating system. Therefore, most of the material I produce is centered around this. However, in this article, I am venturing into the world of Linux as I know there are many people who use Linux as their platform. Continue reading “Create a Linux Debian package from JavaFX 11 desktop application”
With the advent of Java 9 and the introduction of 6 monthly release cycles, the Java Desktop landscape has changed considerably. If you find yourself looking to build Desktop applications using JavaFX and present them as self-contained applications, then take note. Continue reading “Making a Windows MSI from a Java 11 and JavaFX 11 Desktop application”
Even Java Desktop applications can use web services, and in this article, we will take a look at how to make a call to a SOAP web service and receive a response. For this simple example, we will make use of “The Naked Web Service” which was produced as an earlier article.
Continue reading “Java client calling SOAP web service”