Gluon has taken on the responsibility for building an ecosystem and making releases available of the JavaFX Scene Builder tool, as we believe this is a critically important tool for the community. We don’t do this alone however – we work with the community to integrate their improvements. Today we […]
Charm Down is a Gluon open source project with the purpose of creating a common API for accessing native services on mobile devices when developing JavaFX projects. We have recently blogged about it, and you can find the code here, and the documentation here. Now we are adding a new […]
Recently we’ve been asked several times about the possibilities of working with JDBC resources (e.g. MySQL or Derby) and JavaFXPorts. While technically it is possible to directly access a database (the only difficulty is in choosing the right dependencies (some of the latest mysql jars don’t work well on iOS, […]
Gluon continues to grow, gaining more customers and consulting projects, and with that comes the pressures associated with growth – maintaining high standards, keeping our customers and clients happy, enhancing our products, and forming partnerships with other companies in the ecosystem. Our team is wearing a lot of hats, and […]
Gluon also made its way to Devoxx this year, with Johan Vos presenting on ‘Java on mobile, finally‘. We were very happy with the huge crowd showing up to hear Johan’s talk. Fortunately, if you couldn’t make it to the session (or to Devoxx at all!), you can watch it […]
A few weeks ago, RoboVM announced that from version 1.9 onwards a commercial license would be required for all developers who wanted to deploy software to iOS devices. In addition to this, it was announced that the source code for the RoboVM compiler and tools is no longer being developed […]
Gluon is growing, and we are therefore on the hunt for skilled engineers to join our team. We are looking to fill multiple roles. Please read the descriptions of the roles below, and email us your resume / cover letter if you feel you have the skills required to join […]
The Gluon team is really proud to share the news that we have received a Dukes Choice Award at this years JavaOne conference. The Dukes Choice Award is highly coveted and respected by the Java community, so we are humbled and immensely proud of ourselves for winning it. We take […]
Gluon will be making its way to JavaOne this year, with four representatives making the pilgrimage. Johan Vos, Eugene Ryzhikov, Jonathan Giles, and José Pereda will be on site, with Johan, Eugene, and José presenting on Gluon-specific topics. For those of you attending JavaOne this year, please come along to […]
One thing we hear a lot from our customers and clients is that they want to start building a new Java client application, or move to JavaFX from Swing, but they don’t know how to get started, or they need help. There is no silver bullet way to handling this […]
