Presented by Stephen Chin

JavaFX 2 is the next version of a revolutionary rich client platform for developing immersive desktop applications. One of the new features in JavaFX 2 is a set of pure Java APIs that can be used from any JVM language, opening up tremendous possibilities. This presentation demonstrates the potential of using JavaFX 2 together with alternative languages such as Groovy, Clojure, and Scala. It also will showcase the successor to JavaFX Script, Visage, a DSL with features specifically targeted at helping create clean UIs.

Stephen Chin is a Java Evangelist at Oracle specializing in UI technology and co-author of the Pro JavaFX Platform 2 title, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX. He has been featured at Java conferences around the world including Devoxx, Codemash, OSCON, J-Fall, GeeCON, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he twice received a Rock Star Award. In his evenings and weekends, Stephen is an open-source hacker, working on projects including ScalaFX, a DSL for JavaFX in the Scala language, Visage, a UI oriented JVM language, JFXtras, a JavaFX component and extension library, and Apropos, an Agile Project Portfolio scheduling tool written in JavaFX. Stephen can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/

Meeting Location: CTREC Hilton IT Academy

6200 Savoy Dr. Map 
Suite 1000 (10th floor) 
Houston, TX 77036 
Driving directions and parking

Suggested Parking:

Park in the parking garage on the first floor in one of the parking spots designated "VISITOR".

Meeting Sponsor: Datacert

Sponsor Website: http://www.datacert.com

About Datacert
Datacert is a technology innovator and the premier global provider of enterprise legal management solutions. With over a decade of experience serving the complex needs of Global Fortune 500 companies, Datacert brings a wealth of best practices and thought leadership to our clients around the world. Our flagship offering, Passport™, is a patent-pending technology platform that enables corporate legal departments, law firms, and other legal service providers to unite all of their systems on a single collaborative framework.

About our venue sponsor: CTREC Hilton

CTREC Hilton IT Academy is a premier training provider strategically positioned to facilitate and educate professionals in the Information Technology field and beyond.

Our mission is to offer an esteemed level of quality IT training by using real world solutions, supported by a dynamic, energized team focused on providing excellence in and outside the classroom.

Headquartered in Houston, TX, CTREC Hilton IT Academy specializes in Microsoft, CISCO, CompTIA, Citrix, ITIL, PMP, and VMWare training. A Prometric Testing Center is onsite as well.

Web site: www.ctrec.com

Door Prizes and Giveaways! - must RSVP on Eventbrite to win

• JetBrains has donated one IntelliJ license to be raffled off at this month's HJUG meeting if we have 30 attendees, two if we have 50 or more
• Hello2Morrow has donated a SonarGraph Personal license to be raffled off at this month's HJUG meeting
• ZeroTurnaround has donated a license of JavaRebel to be raffled off this month
• Headway Software has donated a license of Structure101 and a license of Restructure101

Meeting sponsored by Structure101 for Tangle free software.