Excellent writing from Markus.
"In real Java systems, the hard part was never mostly typing. The hard part is understanding what the system is allowed to do, what it must never do..." -> I absolutely agree.

Glad to see the Headless JavaFX Platform is being used. It really makes automated UI tests on CI much easier.

Understanding code is so much more important than writing code.

I respectfully disagree :)
I think in many problems, code is not the problem. I don't judge junior developers on their coding skills. I judge on their understanding of the problem.
Same for me. If I understand what I need to do, it's almost done. But it is often so damn hard to know what I want.

This was the thing (actually, it was the //c for me) that got me interested into programming. At different abstraction levels: from PASCAL to assembly (CALL -151). I loved the open, endless possibilities. Never had that feeling with a closed mac, so I moved to Linux later. Wozniak is a genius.

Posts and comments like this make me optimistic that there is still hope. I'm concerned about the growing claims of marketers over the domain of innovation/research. Good to see there are still more knowledgeable thoughts.
Thanks for sharing.

Excellent read. A sufficiently detailed spec is not far from code. I wouldn't be surprised to see a formal grammar for specs emerge, at which point we'll just have invented a higher level programming language or reinvented MDA. And then we'll just need a compiler, not an LLM.

Gluon continues to lead the OpenJFX project. Here is JavaFX 26.

maven central screenshot, showing openjfx 26 in "publishing" status

JavaFX 26 SDK's are available, maven artifacts are being published (but it seems to be a busy publishing day ;) )

GitHub - rladstaetter/CameraApp: Display a videostream from your webcam with JavaFX and JavaCV Display a videostream from your webcam with JavaFX and JavaCV - rladstaetter/CameraApp

Just released CameraApp on #windows and #linux appstores! Check out this project which resurrects my old passion of doing work with #JavaCV and #JavaFX 🚀 github.com/rladstaetter... Download Binaries here github.com/rladstaetter... #snap #rpm #deb #msi

Why spend a week on a bug that we can fix in an hour? - Gluon We’ve all been there. You’re working on a JavaFX application, and you hit that wall. Maybe it’s a strange rendering glitch on a specific OS, a memory leak you can’t pin down, or a performance bottlene...

We’ve all been there. You’re working on a JavaFX application, and you hit that wall. You search the forums. You check Stack Overflow. You spend days tweaking code, hoping for a breakthrough. There is a faster way! Read more: gluonhq.com/why-spend-a-...

Remember Blackdown?

IMO the quality of #Java has improved *a lot* between 2015 and 2025 -- excellent work of the heroes at #OpenJDK.
As for the #community, I hope we can get more diverse. One of the great things in the early days was "Java Everywhere". Think about education, science, data/embedded,... #innovation

foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More.

We're excited to spotlight a fantastic community-driven initiative: the "Java Education Catalog". It wants to bring #Java back into #education, where it belongs! An initiative by @igfasouza.bsky.social and @frankdelporte.be.

github.com/foojayio/jav...

foojay.io/today/bringi...

We can help you with your JavaFX Application. Contact Gluon if you want a quick scan, advice, troubleshooting,...
It's not hard to create a UI in Java -- but it's often helpful to get tailored advice from the experts (we learned many things the hard way ;) )

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

First session is beyond secure messaging, starting with 'A Practical Wrapper Protocol for Metadata-Hiding in Messaging'

#realworldcrypto

This sounds like a good initiative. I'll have to do more reading about the Commonhaus Foundation.

Lottie4J: A JavaFX Player for Lottie Animations in Java Applications YouTube video by Frank Delporte

#Lottie4J, a new library, is now available on #Maven Central. With this library, you can load and parse @lottiefiles.bsky.social animations as #Java objects, and integrate them as a #JavaFX component in your application.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1O...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2026-03...

I don't have more marketing skills than this. But it's 100% honest.

Java and JavaFX apps are often long-lived apps, requiring Long-Term support of Java(/FX).
Maintaining LTS releases is a complex, resource-intensive process. Gluon delivers JavaFX LTS builds for free, making JavaFX supported and safe on many configurations.
Your company can support us in doing this.

Partial screenshot, there is a lot more on the site!

Here is the new (and long!) #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
CommonGround_2048
@johanvos.bsky.social
@gluonhq.com
JabRef
@tom-doerr.bsky.social
@lidianycs.bsky.social
@logorrr.bsky.social
@hansolo.eu

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I Got Java 25 Running on the RISC-V BeagleBoard BeagleV-Fire YouTube video by Frank Delporte

I got #Java 25 running on the #RISCV #BeagleBoard BeagleV-Fire! After my initial struggles in a previous video, I succeeded in upgrading Ubuntu and installing Java! In this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08u... and blog webtechie.be/post/2026-02..., I share a step-by-step guide. #JavaOnRiscV

How can I filter away the "WOW, my LLM wrote some code that millions of developers wrote before and now I can do it too without being smart"-messages and instead focus on posts where humans tackle real, unsolved, hard and barely documented problems?

Maintaining LTS versions for a project like JavaFX is complex and resource-intensive. It requires a fair amount of the Gluon resources, but it is extremely important to keep JavaFX secure, modern and relevant.
You can support us at gluonhq.com/lts
#java #javafx #opensource

JEP 527, "Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3" now proposed to target JDK 27:

openjdk.org/jeps/527
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

#jdk #openjdk #tls #crypto #pqc

JChampions Conference Conference organized by Java Champions and featuring Java Champions in the presentations.

The virtual JChampions Conference 2026 (jchampionsconf.com ) organised by @jchampionsconf.bsky.social will start on Jan 22. Have a look at the schedule, there are many great sessions by recognized Java champions. Get your free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/jchampions...
#java

My New Year's resolutions for my software development in 2026: focus even more on quality, sustainability and maintainability.
#java

We have added a new tool called "FxTools" to the @jfxcentral.com website at www.jfx-central.com/tools/fxtools It is a toolkit that provides image processing, color picking, SVG path extraction, font preview, and more. Author is @leewyatt.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be

Agree.
And I'd like to add: do what you believe needs to be done. Because you think it's important that it's done. Not to get a reward.