Two 1.2 books ? Did everybody except me knew about what was coming in 1.2 ? The FX-files ? ;-) Did anybody in here already read one of those books ?
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Stephen Chin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan, > > The Pro JavaFX book was written with both academic and corporate adoption > in mind in terms of both the structure and content. During the writing > process we had the benefit of early feedback from Dr. Jan Stelovsky of the > University of Hawaii, who intends to use it as the textbook for his Intro to > Hypermedia class. > > We also had a huge focus on providing thorough coverage of JavaFX 1.2. > While the release was underway, the JavaFX team did an awesome job of > keeping us in the loop (kudos to Rich and Amy!), and we opted to delay our > ship date by a few weeks so we could be completely up-to-date with the final > JavaFX 1.2 feature set. Updating the book involved rewriting large > portions, including the dynamic layouts chapter, which was a moving target > up to the final week of the release. > > Our book is due out in print in a couple weeks, but is available as an > eBook today: > http://projavafx.com/ > > Disclaimer: I have purposefully not read any of the other JavaFX books out > there until we finished ours, but intend to pick up a few copies now and > start enjoying them. :-) > > Cheers, > --Steve > > > On 6/18/2009 11:05 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > > I'm searching for a book to give to students of a JavaFX course I'm giving. > I'd rather give them one really covering 1.2 instead of "being compliant" > with 1.2. > > So, is this book covering 1.2 ? > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]>wrote: > >> why, that's crazy talk! :) >> On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: >> >> Really ? The storage, new controls and all 1.2 new features ? The authors >> would now upfront what was coming ! :-) >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:21 AM, jespdj <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I bought "JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications" by Clarke, >>> Connors and Bruno at JavaOne, it covers JavaFX 1.2. >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/JavaFX-Developing-Rich-Internet-Applications/dp/013701287X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245388810&sr=8-1 >>> >>> Jesper >>> >>> On 14 jun, 14:20, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Amongst the books published in the last weeks, are there books already >>> > covering the new features of JavaFX 1.2 ? >>> > >>> > (Some claim their example code runs on 1.2, but that doesn't mean it's >>> using >>> > whatever 1.2 has to offer.) >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- > --Steve > blog: http://steveonjava.com/ > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
