Here is the final JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth for 2025… Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and experience with JavaFX. And we hope to see even more in the next year!

I met Florian Enner a few times at Devoxx in Belgium, and each time he amazed me with his JavaFX demos! He is one of those rare developers who take JavaFX to the next level by adding 3D visualizations.

These are the links from the Ya!vaConf virtual talk on December 4, 2025: “**Java Champion Talk - How the new Foreign Function& Memory API pushes Java on Raspberry Pi to the next level**”.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of November 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

After years of experimenting with Raspberry Pi boards, Java, JavaFX, and Pi4J to control electronics, I wanted to explore whether my knowledge and experience could be applied to similar boards from other providers. There are many alternatives available these days, based on ARM, Intel processors, and RISC-V architectures.

I don’t have any bitcoin myself, but still find the idea of the blockchain and “public shared money” fascinating. And as it turns out, there is a free and open-source bitcoin wallet, created with JavaFX, that wants to help people understand how the Bitcoin system works, and make transactions easy to understand. Thanks to the work of Craig Raw, there is an easy-to-use desktop application to create and manage wallets. And while he explains the app itself, we also learn a lot about the Bitcoin ecosystem, reproducible builds, security, hardware wallets, and more!

These are the links from the JFall talk in Ede, The Netherlands, on November 6, 2025: “**The Wait is Over: Foreign Function& Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the Raspberry Pi**”.

While looking for articles for the JFX Central Links Of The Week, I found this very interesting article by **Paul Krill** on InfoWorld. It’s based on an October 29 post by **Bruce Haddon** on an OpenJDK discussion list in which he argues that the reasons for the separation of OpenJFX from OpenJDK in Java 11, more than seven years ago, are much less applicable today.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of October 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

For my next JavaFX In Action interview, I talked with Matt Coley about Recaf and the JavaFX libraries he’s working on. But unexpectedly, I got a deep-dive course on Java byte code, obfuscated code, and how JARs can be (ab)used to hide the real code they are executing…!

Vlad Protsenko is a Clojure developer working at Defold. While I initially wanted to learn about the Cljfx project, our conversation evolved into a learning experience: a practical getting-started guide to Clojure, a hands-on demonstration of building JavaFX user interfaces with minimal code, and an inside look at the Defold game engine and its JavaFX-based IDE.

As described before on Java 21+ Not Working on Raspberry Pi Zero 2, a problem appeared to execute Java code on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with OpenJDK 21 or higher. Reason: in OpenJDK 21 the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler has been improved, but this change doesn’t work correctly on the ARM Cortex-A53 processor as used in the Zero 2. It’s another type of processor compared to, for instance, the Raspberry Pi 4 (Cortex-A72) and 5 (Cortex-A76).

These are the links from the Devoxx talk in Antwerp, Belgium, on October 9, 2025: “**The Wait is Over: Foreign Function& Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the Raspberry Pi**”.

2025 is an important year as Java 25 got released, a version which will be supported for many more years. On top of that, the Pi4J library will soon be published as V4.0.0 with a new plugin making use of the FFM API, a new feature added to Java in version 22.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of September 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

During a live stream coding session, Matti Tahvonen and I updated an existing Vaadin+Spring+Pi4J demo application to use the latest version of the libraries and Java 25. It’s a demo application I created a few years ago to using during presentations at conferences. Of course, everything evolves, so a big update and refactoring was needed.

I created my first IntelliJ IDEA plugin to fix a minor, personal frustration… I have a long list of projects I’m working on and need to switch between them frequently. But it’s hard to locate a specific project in such a long list. But this problem is now solved! I created a small plugin that adds a new option to the “File” menu: “Recent Projects (Organized)”. It shows your recent projects, organized by the first word of their project name. When multiple projects share the same first word, they get grouped in a submenu.

There is only one “Links Of The Week” for August thanks to a nice summer break. So this is actually a “Links Of The Month”… ;-)

Earlier this month, I released V0.0.1 of my new Java library to interact with DMX512 devices using (optionally) the Open Fixture Library (OFL). After some more experimenting, I’m able to announce the next (beta) release V0.0.2 with the following major changes:

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of July 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

In this post, I would like to inform you about a new Java library that is now available on Maven Central, allowing interaction with DMX512 devices using (optionally) the Open Fixture Library (OFL). I also published a video with a code walkthrough of my test setup and demo code.

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of June 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of April 2025. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected].

Dirk Lemmermann has created many open source and commercial libraries for Java Swing and JavaFX like CalenderFX, FlexGanttFX, GemsFX,… He is also the founder of JFX Central, the home to anything JavaFX related. In this interview he shows us some of his work, including applications used in companies, revealing the power of JavaFX to build custom tools.

I’m proud of every podcast I create for the Friends Of OpenJDK website (Foojay.io), but I want to highlight episode #71 here…