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Today we are publishing the April 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) for OpenJFX. This coordinated release delivers security and stability fixes across the current development line and all three Long Term Support streams: OpenJFX 26.0.1, 25.0.3, 21.0.11 and 17.0.19. As with every quarterly CPU, the focus is squarely on keeping production JavaFX applications safe and
Read more →JavaFX 26 is Now Available We are pleased to announce the official release of JavaFX 26. This milestone marks another significant step forward for the ecosystem, delivering a robust suite of new features ranging from modern rendering pipelines to highly requested developer APIs. This release reflects the continued commitment of the OpenJFX community to providing
Read more →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 bottleneck that only appears in production. You search the forums. You check Stack Overflow. You spend days tweaking code, hoping
Read more →In a perfect world, keeping a tech stack current is as simple as bumping a version number in a pom.xml or build.gradle file. You run a clean build, and suddenly, the latest fixes are integrated. But for those of us building mission-critical desktop and embedded applications, "just upgrading" to the latest major release isn't always
Read more →Today marks the release of the January 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) for OpenJFX. This coordinated release provides essential security and stability updates for the entire ecosystem, covering the latest development versions as well as our Long Term Support (LTS) versions: OpenJFX 25.0.2, 21.0.10 and 17.0.18. Professional Stewardship: The Invisible Labor of Security While OpenJFX
Read more →When we started Gluon nearly a decade ago, one of our key goals was to make Java a first-class citizen on mobile. We built a toolchain that allowed developers to run Java and JavaFX applications on iOS and Android devices. That solution still exists today, and developers can continue to use it. However, over time
Read more →We’re excited to announce a new addition to the JavaFX ecosystem: the Headless Platform, a lightweight, platform-independent backend that enables running JavaFX applications without a graphical user interface. Why a Headless Platform? JavaFX has long relied on platform-specific glass implementations (like mac, win, and gtk) for rendering user interfaces. While that works great for traditional
Read more →We are excited to announce the general availability of Scene Builder 24.0.0! This release builds upon the recent 24.0.0 RC and brings all of those improvements and new features to stable status. We extend our gratitude to the JavaFX community for their invaluable feedback during the Release Candidate phase. Your insights have been instrumental in
Read more →We are happy to announce the release of three new versions of JavaFX: 23.0.2, 21.0.6 (LTS), and 17.0.14 (LTS). These updates reflect our continued commitment to keeping JavaFX secure, stable, and performant for developers worldwide. Whether you are on the latest feature release or an LTS version, these updates ensure your applications remain robust and
Read more →Scene Builder continues to be a vital tool for JavaFX developers, offering an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for creating stunning UIs quickly and efficiently. With over 2 million downloads since its release, Scene Builder has earned its place as one of the most popular tools in the JavaFX ecosystem. Now, we’re excited to present the Scene
Read more →JavaFX 23 Released: What You Need to Know We’re excited to announce the release of JavaFX 23, the latest major update to the popular framework for building rich desktop applications. This new version brings a host of improvements and enhancements, offering developers even more power and flexibility for creating cross-platform desktop experiences. You can now
Read more →Elevating Your JavaFX Applications with Essential Features Over the past years, we created a number of standalone JavaFX-based software components, each with their own lifecycle, build structure, target platform and license. Recently, we worked hard to provide a better overall and consistent developer experience. We are thrilled to unveil GluonFX, a game-changing integrated suite of
Read more →Gluon is well-known as a company run by and for developers. Throughout our history of supporting JavaFX, we have been committed to ensuring that developers have access to the latest builds at no cost. We have been consistently creating and releasing early-access and general-availability versions of JavaFX, starting from version 11. It is evident that
Read more →One of the frequently asked features for JavaFX is the availability of a rich text editor. JavaFX comes with a great and simple built-in TextArea control, which contains the greatest common divisor of what developers want. The JavaFX core modules are simple and generic on purpose, and they allow third parties to create more complex
Read more →Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 2 million downloads since Gluon started distributing it in 2015, Scene Builder
Read more →When using the GluonFX plugins (for Maven and Gradle) in a JavaFX application, developers are leveraging Gluon Substrate which provides the way to create native images for Java and JavaFX projects that can target all platforms (desktop, mobile and embedded). If you are new to this, please have a look at our documentation on how
Read more →Gluon is proud to announce the release of Gluon Mobile 6.1.0, as well as updated versions of our Gluon IDE plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and Eclipse. The primary focus of this release has been to simplify the integration of Gluon Mobile into existing JavaFX applications. Overview Gluon Mobile is a full client-side solution for
Read more →One of the great things about JavaFX is that user interfaces created with the JavaFX APIs can be rendered on different platforms, with different architectures and operating systems. JavaFX applications can be executed on desktop systems (with MacOS, Windows, Linux) but also on mobile and embedded devices (e.g. iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi, e-paper). Gluon is
Read more →Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 2 million downloads since Gluon started distributing it in 2015, Scene Builder
Read more →Almost 3 years ago, Gluon announced the JavaFX 11 release. Today, we are excited to release JavaFX 17. When we released JavaFX 11, we explained the path forward. That path includes a new feature release every 6 months, and 4 CPU releases per year. This predictability is very much appreciated by the developer community, and
Read more →Gluon has been making improvements to its Maps library as we gear up for the 2.0.0 release. Some of the features and bug fixes for this release are listed below: Features JDK 11 support A new API has been added to allow setting a placeholder image for tiles ThreadFactory and CompletableFuture are now used to
Read more →Gluon recently upgraded its client plugins to version 1.0. It marks a milestone in terms of the work Gluon has been doing to make Java(FX) available across platforms. One of the major changes that went into this release has been the renaming of the plugins from "client" to "gluonfx". The gluonfx plugins aim to be
Read more →At Gluon, we're working very hard to make sure Java developers can easily create client applications, run them on any platform, and connect them to cloud and enterprise systems. In this video, we give a status update about some recent work we did. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in
Read more →JavaFX is a cross-platform product. At Gluon, we work hard to make sure that JavaFX can be used on a wide variety of platforms. That means we make sure the OpenJFX code base keeps working on existing operating systems, CPU's and architecture. Every now and then, a new system pops up, and in case it
Read more →Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 1.5 million downloads since Gluon started distributing it in 2015, Scene Builder
Read more →Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 1.5 million downloads since Gluon started distributing it in 2015, Scene Builder
Read more →This article was originally posted in Java magazin (in German). In September 2020, JavaFX 15 was released, which makes an ideal occasion for us to philosophize on why JavaFX is more relevant than ever. In this article, we’ll go beyond JavaFX on the desktop, and even beyond JavaFX on mobile. We’ll talk about cross-compiling Java
Read more →While developing a Gluon Application is easy and fun, building and releasing a native image for every supported platform can be a real time waster. This is of course where build automation tools come into play. But it can still be hard to find the right build platforms and setup the complete build environment. Those
Read more →A key advantage of JavaFX is that it allows Java developers to write client applications, including a user interface, in a platform-independent way. The same JavaFX code that is written for desktop platforms also works on mobile and embedded devices. In order to achieve this, the JavaFX implementation itself needs to bridge the gap between
Read more →JavaFX 15 has been released recently for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Developers using Gluon Substrate can leverage JavaFX 15 already on iOS and Android. In this blog post, we want to explain our plans for JavaFX on embedded, but first, a screenshot from a pre-release version of Gluon Start: Being a cross-platform framework, the JavaFX
Read more →Earlier this month, JavaFX 15 was released. The release notes were published on Github; a short summary of the highlights was made available on openjfx.io and foojay. In his interview with jaxenter, Johan Vos explains why this release is important: We want to make sure we keep supporting new hardware and software, with a focus
Read more →One of the advantages of Java is the huge ecosystem. Many Java developers, both individuals as well as large companies and anything in between, create and maintain Java libraries and frameworks that complement the Java core platform. Thanks to the cross-platform nature of Java, these libraries are typically very portable. Because Gluon has enabled Java
Read more →We often hear from users of our software (both our open source friends and our wonderful, supportive customers) that Gluon offers a lot of different software components, and indeed, we provide an end-to-end stack enabling the Java mobile enterprise. We do realise though that it is not always easy to understand upfront which components are
Read more →The team at Gluon spend a lot of time focused on streamlining the developer experience for creating mobile and embedded apps in Java. One of our primary areas of focus continues to be on the most popular Java IDEs. Developers use their favourite IDE (NetBeans, IntelliJ, or Eclipse, most commonly) to write and maintain code,
Read more →Earlier this week, the GraalVM team released GraalVM 20.2. For Gluon and our customers, this is a major milestone for the project, because it enables developers to use the exact same GraalVM tooling for cloud/server, mobile, and IoT development. This is because our Gluon Substrate tooling uses the GraalVM native-image compiler to compile Java bytecode
Read more →The Gluon technology stack is the very best way to get Java running on Desktop, Embedded, Android and iOS devices using a single codebase. Gluon Mobile makes creating beautiful and highly functional cross-device mobile applications a breeze, while Gluon CloudLink makes connecting your backend services to your mobile applications something even a UI developer can
Read more →Wolfgang Weigend, Master Principal Solution Engineer at Oracle Germany GmbH, confirms in his article on JAXenter “25 Years of Java : a programming language celebrates its anniversary” Gluon’s leading role as a development and support partner for JavaFX. JavaFX 11 (LTS) and higher versions are downloaded from a separate website. JavaFX 14 is offered as
Read more →We are very pleased to announce that Gluon Substrate can now generate static executables for Windows, based on the latest Java and JavaFX code. As we had announced earlier, Gluon Substrate enables conversion of Java and JavaFX applications into applications that are native to the target operating system, and thus don't require a Java VM
Read more →Gluon Services makes the work of developers more efficient and faster. We've interviewed Daniel Zimmermann, project engineer at cnlab Software AG to share his experience. Daniel Zimmermann : “Gluon’s Expert consulting gave us the instant knowledge for the migration of applications to new frameworks, like GraalVM and Gluon Substrate for mobile app development. Gluon also
Read more →From its inception, Java has been designed to be platform-independent. Java code written on one platform, should run on any other platform. At Gluon, we take this cross-platform behavior very seriously. Java applications developed on a desktop system should easily be deployed to, and executed on, all kinds of client systems, including laptops, mobile devices
Read more →Over the past years, the Gluon team has worked extremely hard to create technical products, and to deliver technical projects for customers. We enable the development of JavaFX on desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms, and we provide the link between Java based client and cloud software. We contribute a lot to open source projects, including
Read more →The engineers at Gluon have been working extremely hard over the past few months, with a number of things happening in parallel. We thought it was time to provide an overview of things that are happening, so in this post we will get you up to speed with what is going on at Gluon HQ,
Read more →Native applications are known for their fast startup time, high performance and low footprint. Think of a world where any Java application can be converted into a native application in minutes with almost no effort, leaving you with all the speed gains and no headache. Gluon Substrate is a tool that converts Java(FX) applications into
Read more →Have you ever dreamt of building a business in technology? Are you a sales and marketing professional eager to roll up your sleeves and to create value in deep tech? Do you want to join our team of technical founders and help us grow the company as a CEO? What we expect: We are determined
Read more →Earlier this week, Oracle released GraalVM 19.3. One of the great components in this release is GraalVM Native Image. With this tool, it is possible to convert Java applications (or by extension, all code written in a language that can run on top of GraalVM) into native applications. A native application does not need a
Read more →Last week, we released JavaFX 11.0.4 for our JavaFX 11 LTS customers. The JavaFX 11 Long Term Support ensures developers and companies the availability of the JavaFX 11 platform for a long time, exceeding the lifetime of most applications. The updates they receive (e.g. 11.0.4) provide fixes for security issues and for selected bugs and
Read more →It has always been our goal to provide first class Java and JavaFX support for all client devices, not only for desktops but also for mobile and embedded devices. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the Gluon Client plugins which we announced last month now have beta support for Java and JavaFX on iOS.
Read more →The IT landscape is constantly evolving. For client applications, there is a clear trend towards bundled native applications and appstores. One of the answers Java has in this area is jpackage. With jpackage, developers can bundle their Java(FX) application and dependencies with an appropriate Java runtime that contains everything that is needed to run the
Read more →In the past few days, we delivered a number of JavaFX releases with different version numbers. In this article, we will clarify the goals and target group for those different releases. JavaFX 11.0.3 is the latest release of JavaFX 11. It is distributed to customers of the Gluon JavaFX Enterprise Support program, and it contains
Read more →We previously talked about using Gluon CloudLink with mobile apps. In this blog post, we talk about how any JavaFX application (e.g. on desktop) can take advantage of Gluon CloudLink. Gluon CloudLink allows us to use a Function Mapper for creating a simple and decoupled infrastructure. Gluon Cloudlink connects the client application and the data
Read more →It has already been six months since we announced the release of JavaFX 11. JavaFX 11 was the first release of JavaFX that was decoupled from the JDK, and it marked the beginning of a new approach where developers can decide to use JavaFX as a standalone SDK or as a set of artifacts deployed
Read more →It has already been six months since we announced the release of JavaFX 11. JavaFX 11 was the first release of JavaFX that was decoupled from the JDK, and it marked the beginning of a new approach where developers can decide to use JavaFX as a standalone SDK or as a set of artifacts deployed
Read more →After the release of JavaFX 11 under the OpenJFX project last September, we launched openjfx-docs as a starting guide to pave the way for developers that were facing new challenges, mainly JavaFX being outside the JDK and also being modular. At the same time, we provided a number of samples to illustrate how to work
Read more →On June 13, Kevin Rushforth proposed a milestone schedule for JavaFX 11 that would lead to a release on September 18. That date has finally arrived, and right on schedule we at Gluon are very happy and proud to announce that JavaFX 11 is available. The most exciting aspect of JavaFX 11 is that it
Read more →The OpenJFX team, which includes developers from companies like Oracle and Gluon, as well as individuals, is working very hard to get the JavaFX 11 release for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux published later this month. While the release is stabilizing (early access builds are available), we are now also making JavaFX available in
Read more →A number of things have happened since it was announced that JavaFX will be offered as a component separate from the core JDK. Most importantly, a mirror of the OpenJFX repository has been created on GitHub, and a number of new developers have arrived to increase development efforts. These new contributors arrived because GitHub made
Read more →Devoxx is a series of international technical conferences. They use a mobile application to help organizers and attendees locate venues, browse and schedule sessions, scan badges, give feedback, and so much more. The Devoxx app is open source, and is built using Gluon Mobile, which enables it to deploy to both Android and iOS with
Read more →Creating first-class, robust, secure, flexible and beautiful mobile or embedded applications that integrate perfectly with enterprise and cloud functionality requires lots of different skills. The Gluon tools allows Java developers to participate and control the work flow that involves design, code, integration, deployment. With Gluon Scene Builder, designers or developers with graphical skills work on
Read more →Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 900,000 downloads since Gluon started distributing it in 2015, Scene Builder clearly
Read more →At Gluon our sole focus is to make Java an excellent platform for mobile applications, for both iOS and Android. With Gluon Mobile you can create, quite frankly, beautiful and highly performant mobile apps, and with Gluon CloudLink you can easily link your apps to cloud and enterprise functionality in a very flexible way. Today
Read more →Java developers are using Gluon Mobile and Gluon CloudLink to bind mobile apps to cloud services and to leverage functionality offered in enterprise environments. We have been writing about integrations with a number of cloud services before. Today, we will show how you can integrate your Java mobile apps with the Amazon AWS Mobile Hub.
Read more →With Gluon Mobile, Java developers can easily create Java apps that run on mobile and embedded devices, and by using Gluon CloudLink, these same developers can connect their apps to cloud systems, leveraging the services provided by a whole range of cloud providers. We are very proud of our work integrating into various cloud services
Read more →Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting very important in many cases. In the following post, we explain how Java developers can leverage first class AI tools on client and cloud software. More and more software projects are using some kind of Artificial Intelligence, and in many cases, the application of AI is not an end-goal, but
Read more →The Gluon engineering team is proud to announce the release of Gluon Mobile 5.0.0, as well as updated versions of our Gluon IDE plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and Eclipse. As stated in our earlier announcement, the primary focus of this release has been to simplify Gluon Mobile APIs. With this, we are also releasing
Read more →As we've written about previously, JavaFX is in the process of being decoupled from Oracle's Java SDK distribution. As a consequence of this, JavaFX will be able to have its own lifecycle and roadmap, leveraging the latest Java distribution. With Gluon, we are very committed to the success of JavaFX, and we are a very
Read more →Recently Oracle announced their intention to stop shipping JavaFX with JDK 11 and later. The result of this has caused some uncertainty in the client Java community, so we at Gluon wanted to very briefly outline the implications of this announcement, for us, and more importantly, for you. It goes without saying that Gluon has
Read more →Gluon proudly offers an excellent end-to-end solution for Java developers, from mobile, all the way through enterprise, and the cloud. Of late, the engineers at Gluon are particularly excited about serverless computing in the context of combining mobile app development and enterprise functionality. This is because serverless functions allow developers to easily move some computations
Read more →Gluon VM is Gluon's solution for bringing Java to mobile in general, and to iOS in particular. Gluon VM contains an Ahead Of Time compiler (AOT) that translates Java bytecode into platform specific code, combines it with native code (that can be accessed using JNI), and bundles everything in a single executable that can be
Read more →The engineers at Gluon have been working hard over the past few months preparing a number of new releases, on top of their JavaFX and Java enterprise consulting that they do. In this post we will summarize what is coming up in the next few months for users of Gluon software. Gluon VM We announced
Read more →In June 2016, we announced Gluon VM as a new Gluon Labs project. Last year at JavaOne we gave a preview of Gluon VM running on the iOS simulator and we provided an update. Since then, we have been working on closed beta versions of Gluon VM, that have been tested by a select number
Read more →Using Gluon Mobile, Java developers can create mobile apps (for Android and iOS) using Java. The Gluon Plugin for IDEs makes it very easy to use Gluon Mobile. Gluon provides the Gluon plugin for your favorite IDEs: NetBeans, IntelliJ and Eclipse. You can find details about each of them in our documentation. While NetBeans and
Read more →Many developers love their IDE. Whatever can be done in the IDE, should be done in the IDE. An integrated development environment increases productivity for individuals as well as for teams. At Gluon, we want to make it easy for developers to leverage the latest products we are building, and to benefit from integrations we
Read more →We previously talked about how Gluon CloudLink can run serverless code for Mobile Enterprise applications. Today we give a concrete real-world example on how a mobile application benefits from a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform. MyDevoxx is a conference scheduler application created in Java for the different Devoxx conferences. Users can view the session and speaker catalog,
Read more →Over the last year or so there has been a growing buzz around 'serverless' functionality, also known as 'Functions as a Service' (or FaaS). This often simply boils down to being able to execute code without going through the hassle of setting up and managing infrastructure (and does indeed still rely on servers! 🙂 ).
Read more →Last week at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne, Gluon was honored to receive an Oracle Innovation Award for our work on Gluon CloudLink on Oracle Cloud. This marks a significant milestone in the history of Gluon, as it is clear that we are now being taken seriously not just for our Gluon Mobile offering, but also
Read more →The Gluon engineering team have been putting the finishing touches on a brand new Scene Builder release. Scene Builder is a drag & drop user interface designer for JavaFX. Scene Builder allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic files allows for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer
Read more →One of the key requirements we have in Gluon when we work on software is that it should be as easy as possible for existing developers and operators to use our tools. We realise todays world is already very complex, and we try to add mobile functionality for enterprise infrastructure with a minimum impact on
Read more →Gluon was founded on the vision of providing an end-to-end Java solution for mobile app development with connectivity and synchronization to enterprise backends. Between Gluon Mobile and Gluon CloudLink, developers can benefit from a hugely accelerated development process, and the Gluon engineering team continues to enhance our offerings to improve the developer experience. In Gluon
Read more →Today Oracle released a short video where they interview Sean Phillips and Diane Davis from a.i. Solutions. In it they talk about the architecture behind their software solution for doing incredibly complex deep space trajectory calculations. Sean has presented this software in the past at JavaOne and Oracle Code conferences, and it is always fascinating
Read more →Here at Gluon we have been huge fans of JavaFX for a very, very long time. Our team is made up of a number of respected experts in the community, with contributors to a number of open source projects such as ControlsFX, not to mention our open source projects such as Gluon Charm Down (for
Read more →Gluon CloudLink provides the means through which enterprise developers can enable mobile apps to interact with their back end infrastructure through the use of remote functions. Until now, a remote function could only call into a HTTP REST endpoint, however today the Gluon engineering team is pleased to announce that developers can now configure a
Read more →Gluon CloudLink makes it easy to extend existing Java backend applications to mobile front-ends. As previously announced, Gluon provides a number of SDK's for the most popular Java server-side platforms and frameworks. Developers and architects using the Java EE Platform can watch this screencast and learn how easy it is to use the Gluon CloudLink
Read more →Gluon is looking for a motivated sales professional to join our team. Gluon is a growing software company focused on enterprise mobile and cloud solutions. We offer software solutions that enable rapid development of mobile applications with easy integration into backend systems and cloud services. Our engineering team is stacked with top-notch talent, and we
Read more →The Gluon engineering team has over the past few weeks been working on enhancing the already crowded list of services in Charm Down with a few more plugins. These services will be released in the coming days (or, depending on when you read this, might already be available). In this blog post, we'll talk about
Read more →Engineers at Gluon have simplicity at the forefront of their minds. Their primary goal is to simplify the lives of existing Java enterprise developers, aiding them in the creation and operation of mobile apps. This is the primary motivation for every one of our engineers. As we explained previously, Gluon provides the Gluon CloudLink SDK.
Read more →We have recently announced the release of the Gluon CloudLink SDK. The SDK consists of two components: Client SDK: used in the Mobile Application code to interact with Gluon CloudLink functionality Enterprise SDK: used to manipulate the mobile content and functionality by writing Java enterprise code The Gluon CloudLink Enterprise SDK is implemented on top
Read more →Gluon offers the Gluon CloudLink SDK to meet the needs of enterprises wanting to connect their enterprise systems to their mobile and desktop users in a safe, performant, and centralized fashion. The Gluon CloudLink SDK enables programmatic access to, and control over, all aspects of Gluon CloudLink. This enables actions internal to an enterprise to
Read more →The Gluon engineering team has over the past few months been transitioning our Gluon CloudLink dashboard from a desktop JavaFX application to instead be web-based. This was motivated by our customers desires to be able to have a 'no-install' dashboard experience when managing their Gluon CloudLink apps, and also our desire to quickly iterate on
Read more →Earlier this week, Gluon proudly released JavaFXPorts 8.60.9, which provides the foundation for cross-platform mobile and embedded UI development in Java, as part of the Gluon Mobile offering. The JavaFXPorts project is a fork of the official OpenJFX repository, which contains the source code (both Java and native code) for JavaFX. It is a community
Read more →At Gluon, we're proud to deliver the open-source Devoxx conference planner, branded MyDevoxx. This project is an end-to-end Java project, meaning that the iOS and Android mobile apps are all created using a 100% Java codebase. The Gluon Mobile toolset automatically converts a Java client project into a native app for iOS and Android. The
Read more →Gluon is now starting its third year in existence, and over the past few months, we have been focusing on getting Gluon to the next phase in its evolution. We have now completed enough of what is in store to surface and post this blog post to give a quick update. As we've discussed before,
Read more →Today the Gluon engineering team is happy to announce the availability of Scene Builder 8.3.0, which brings significant improvements to mobile development support. Scene Builder is becoming more closely integrated with Gluon Mobile (when desired), and marks the beginning of our push towards making mobile development easier and even more ‘drag and drop’ than it
Read more →The Gluon engineering team has today signed off on the release of Gluon Mobile 4.2.0, as well as updated versions of our Gluon IDE plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and Eclipse. This follows the major release of Gluon Mobile 4.0.0 a month ago (and the silent 4.1.0 release earlier this month), and in that time
Read more →Devoxx Belgium wrapped a few weeks ago, and we had three of our team there presenting and hanging out with the community. One important announcement, given by Stephan Janssen and Johan Vos during the closing keynote was that, going forward, all Devoxx conferences will be serviced by a single mobile conference application, built using Gluon
Read more →Gluon is constantly improving its products and we need your input! Gluon knows your time is valuable – that’s why we build software that speeds up your development cycles. We also know how annoying ‘5 minute’ surveys can be – so we’ve stripped this survey back to a tiny number of questions, but enough that
Read more →Traditional enterprise apps enable connectivity to users, consumers, partners, and employees via static web-based frontends. With the increasing adoption of mobile and IOT applications, companies are facing an order of magnitude increase in demand for the same services delivered to mobile apps. This creates a number of new challenges, including the need to seamlessly integrate
Read more →Massey University is a university in New Zealand, almost literally on the door step of Jonathan Giles. One of the things we are very proud of at Gluon is the huge uptake of Gluon Mobile inside universities – it helps students to create their software for Android and iOS easily, quickly, and with great looking
Read more →The Gluon Mobile App Contest concluded just prior to JavaOne. We were overwhelmed by the volume and quality of entries into this contest, and we had a really hard time picking the winners, so much so that we decided to give two third prizes, as we had two very deserving entrants at that level. The
Read more →The entire Gluon team is immensely proud to announce the immediate availability of Gluon Mobile 4.0.0, the best solution for building cross-device mobile applications in pure Java, with zero native or platform-specific coding. The primary focus for Gluon Mobile 4.0.0 was to overhaul our low-level Gluon Charm Down library that provides a single API for
Read more →An increasing number of companies face requests from their users and customers to offer their services via mobile applications. Thanks to Gluon CloudLink and Gluon Mobile, Java developers can easily extend their enterprise functionality to cross-device Java mobile applications, using a single user interface based on JavaFX and Google Material Design. While this already makes
Read more →As we announced early this week here, we have been working for the past four months on the Gluon application for JavaOne. This project makes use of Gluon Mobile, Gluon CloudLink and Gluon Charm Down. This is the first of a series of blog posts about how we built the application. We'll explain with a
Read more →For the past four months, a team of engineers and designers at Gluon have been working on an application for JavaOne. This project makes use of Gluon Mobile and Gluon CloudLink, as well as a number of open source offerings (both our own and from the community). Leading in to JavaOne we wanted to introduce
Read more →Before we announced Gluon VM a couple of months ago, we had been working on a number of components, experimenting with a number of options, and building up a vision for Gluon VM. In the months since announcing Gluon VM, we can now say that we are confident enough about our approach that we can
Read more →Busy times are ahead for the Gluon team, with a few of the team travelling to JavaOne to give a number of presentations (and the rest of us staying back to keep working on our consulting projects and upcoming releases of Gluon Mobile and Gluon CloudLink, etc). During JavaOne we will be talking about Java
Read more →A few months back we announced the Gluon App Contest – your chance to write something cool with Gluon solutions, and to win prizes in the process! We polled our engineers about some prizes they would like to win, and then we created a competition they are expressly forbidden to enter (anyway, they're too busy
Read more →To many of our friends, customers, and fellow community members, you may not have heard from us publicly in a few months. Despite appearances, Gluon has never been busier, and the good news is that we're growing at a rapid pace. We've been bringing in more experts to fill in gaps in the company, both
Read more →Here at Gluon we understand that developers operate in different ways. While many enjoy looking over sample code / tutorials or in-depth documentation, we want to make sure we also support those of you who enjoy kicking back and watching a video which can present an overview of some aspect of what Gluon is building.
Read more →Today Gluon is announcing the first Gluon App Contest is officially open for entries! We have put this together to encourage customers and our community to explore the opportunities that the Gluon software stack offers. We encourage you to take a look at Gluon Mobile, Gluon CloudLink, Gluon Connect, and Gluon Charm Down, as well
Read more →Recently, we talked about the Gluon end-to-end strategy, and we explained that we want to enable companies to leverage their existing enterprise middleware to create cross-platform native mobile applications, using the Java Platform. Today we have added more documentation and tutorials related to this process. In particular, we posted a screencast on our Gluon Media
Read more →At Gluon, we are focused on creating products and tools (and a lot of open source) that allow Java developers to create mobile enterprise applications leveraging their existing Java knowledge. In order to run Java applications on mobile devices, it is necessary to be able to run Java bytecode on the device, either directly or
Read more →People sometimes mistakenly think that Gluon is a mobile-only software company – that our core focus is about Java on Android and iOS, that we just enable one application written in Java to work on both iOS and Android devices. This is our fault: we have focused our messaging primarily around the Gluon Mobile offering,
Read more →Today the Gluon engineering team has signed off on Gluon Mobile 3.0.0. This is a major update to the Gluon Mobile product, primarily because it integrates a brand new library we are also releasing today called Gluon Connect, but also because of a number of bug fixes and product improvements. We encourage all customers and
Read more →Earlier this week our Gluon engineering team announced the availability of hardware accelerated JavaFX 3D support on iOS and Android devices. In that blog post we had two screenshots of Android and iOS devices with a Rubik's Cube game being played. This was an application developed by one of our engineers, José Pereda. You can
Read more →In the past days Gluon has been busy releasing Scene Builder 8.2.0 and adding support for WebView to JavaFX Embedded builds. We also have a very full roadmap of upcoming releases, but today we are happy to announce that we have enabled proper, hardware accelerated JavaFX 3D support on iOS and Android devices. This is
Read more →Even though our official Gluon roadmap shows that the next release of Scene Builder isn't until mid July, we are doing an extra release today to bring out some new features that we've been working on that we didn't want to wait another day! The motivator for this release is our brand new support for
Read more →After we released the JavaFX Embedded SDK, we got a number of questions from developers that want to use the JavaFX WebView API in their embedded JavaFX application. For these developers, we have good news: we have worked on this and it is now possible to build a JavaFX Embedded SDK that includes the JavaFX
Read more →Today the Gluon engineering team has signed off on Gluon Mobile 2.2.0. This release is primarily a bug fix release, and follows the Gluon release schedule that is publicly available for review. An overview of the primary changes that have been made in this release is below: New Features / Improvements: TextField: Add support for
Read more →Today Gluon announces a new product with immediate availability: the Gluon Maps component. A couple of years ago, Gluon co-founder Johan Vos started the OpenMapFX project, which provides basic geo-map functionality and allows for multiple layers to be added on top of the map. Over time Johan and Gluon received a number of questions
Read more →The Gluon team has been covering a lot of ground since we started, but we hear from a lot of people that they need a helping hand to get started building their Gluon Mobile and Gluon Desktop software. We've long had a samples repository on Github for people to learn from, and they were generally
Read more →Today we have released JavaFXPorts 8.60.7. This release is the successor of JavaFXPorts 8.60.6, which was released almost six months ago. As explained in an earlier blog entry we create public releases of JavaFXPorts every six months, based on the open-source repository at BitBucket. Gluon OSS Customers get access to monthly or daily builds as
Read more →Today the engineering team at Gluon signed off on the release of new versions of Gluon Mobile, Gluon Cloud, Gluon Desktop, and the Gluon IDE plugins. All current customers of Gluon Mobile and Gluon Desktop can immediately make use of these new releases by updating their build scripts. Current customers of Gluon Cloud will automatically
Read more →Back in October 2015, Gluon was so immensely proud to announce that their solutions for Java on mobile and Java in the cloud (not to mention the numerous contributions to open source) had been awarded a prestigious Dukes Choice award. Since then the whole company has been busily working on advancing the state of the
Read more →When we first started brainstorming what Gluon would be back in late 2014, we always had the names of products in our heads. Gluon Charm was the name from the very beginning, and while other names were changed, some of them remained the same, almost unquestioned. By now Gluon has been operating and working with
Read more →On January 19 we released Scene Builder 8.1.0, and we saw a big uptake, as expected. Since then, we've heard from some users that they're running into issues thanks to some of the changes in that release. Today we're announcing the immediate availability of Gluon Scene Builder 8.1.1 that fixes two major issues that were
Read more →When we released Gluon Mobile 1.0 we knew we were just at the beginning of a long journey. Today we announce the next step of that journey – Gluon Mobile 2.0 is now available for immediate use by our current customers and new customers alike. We never planned for the next release of Gluon Mobile
Read more →As we blogged about recently, Scene Builder is hugely popular – we've had over 205,000 downloads of Scene Builder since we released less than a year ago. We also recently posted about how Scene Builder is being improved by companies outside of Gluon, which is great to see. For anyone out there wanting to contribute
Read more →Gluon has been the unofficial shepherd of Scene Builder for most of 2015, and while some in the community think Scene Builder is a lost cause (and are spreading a lot of FUD about it and JavaFX), we feel that with our closer relationship to the JavaFX community and OpenJFX development, we understand the importance
Read more →At Gluon we believe in open source, and a big part of open source is transparency. While not all of Gluon is open source, we try our best to apply the same principles regardless, and today we're taking a step to increase our transparency further. One thing we're hearing from our customers is that they
Read more →Gluon is growing (again). Our team of engineers are busily working on customer projects, our open source projects, our IDE plugins, as well as Gluon Mobile, Gluon Cloud, and Gluon Desktop. At our core is a strong conviction that Java can be an excellent language and platform for writing cross-device software for deployment into mobile
Read more →At Gluon, we are experts in Java SE, Java EE, and JavaFX. This expertise has not only led to the development of the Gluon family of products, but we can also assist you with your project. Today we interview Neil Matatall from Brakeman Pro, who asked us to review his JavaFX application and provide feedback
Read more →The recent 'news' about Android moving from Harmony to OpenJDK caused some confusion and lots of speculation in the developer world. In this post, we try to clarify the facts without going into any speculation. 1. Terminology First of all, some terminology needs to be clear. There are a number of components involved which
Read more →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 interview Alexander Casall from Saxonia
Read more →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 service: a Bluetooth Low Energy
Read more →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, for instance)), it is not
Read more →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 we started to realise that
Read more →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 embedded below. We have also
Read more →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 under an open source model.
Read more →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 our team. Applicants will work
Read more →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 it as recognition of the
Read more →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 our sessions – we look
Read more →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 – each case is different,
Read more →Client week at Gluon continues with the announcement of a brand new Gluon product called Gluon Desktop. In addition to this, we are pleased to also announce that Gluon Desktop 1.0 is now available for download and purchase from the Gluon Store. Overview Gluon Desktop is a Java desktop application framework. The underlined 'desktop' is
Read more →After achieving the important milestone of releasing Gluon Mobile 1.0 yesterday, today we release three samples that heavily use the main features of Gluon Mobile, so you can get started building your own applications more easily. The first sample is simply called Notes. This sample makes use of Gluon Mobile's 'Charm Glisten' features to give
Read more →Welcome to 'client week' at Gluon! If last week was all about the cloud (and the week before all about open source), this week will be all about client-side technology coming out of Gluon. This week starts with a bang – we are pleased to announce the immediate release and availability of Gluon Mobile 1.0.
Read more →This week we announced the availability of Gluon Cloud, and yesterday we explained how you can use Gluon Cloud to synchronize data between different instances of your client application. Today we will explain how to connect your application with existing back-end systems or cloud providers using Gluon Cloud. As discussed in earlier blog posts, this
Read more →In the previous blog posts on Gluon Cloud, we explained the functionality provided by Gluon Cloud. We showed how you can synchronize data between application instances, and how to integrate Gluon Cloud with existing back-end systems and cloud providers. Today, we will discuss the overarching role of Gluon Cloud in the client-server landscape. History One
Read more →Yesterday we announced the availability of Gluon Cloud, and we briefly touched on its two main functions: data synchronization between different devices, and data connectivity with back end and cloud systems. Today, we'll focus a bit more on the data synchronization aspects of Gluon Cloud. Almost every useful client application is useful because it shares
Read more →Welcome to the start of what we at Gluon HQ are calling 'Cloud Week'! We have a number of blog posts lined up to go this week, where you will learn more about the Gluon Cloud offering. Gluon Cloud 1.0 As always, we start the week off with a bang – after many months running
Read more →Due to popular request, we have enhanced the JavaFX Mobile SDK for Android with the ability to communicate between your JavaFX Application and other applications running on the device. Android developers are familiar with the concepts of Intents and Activities, and with the ability to transfer control from your application to another application in order
Read more →Yesterday, we released the Gluon JavaFX Mobile SDKs 8.60.6 for Android and iOS, leveraging the same codebase as what Oracle ships for JavaFX 8u60 (for desktop users). Building on top of that, today we release the binaries of the Gluon JavaFX Embedded (ARM) SDK. The Gluon JavaFX Embedded SDK follows the same release roadmap as
Read more →Today Gluon is very happy to release the Gluon JavaFX Mobile SDK 8.60.6 for Android and iOS. This release is the successor of the javafxports 8u60-b5 release. The new release is based on the very latest 8u-dev repository of the OpenJFX project. As such, all bug fixes that are included in the 8u-dev tree over
Read more →In the past, we received many questions from people about release dates for our open source software, most importantly JavaFXPorts and Gluon Scene Builder. Before today, there was no publicly available plan for when we would make available new releases for these projects. However, we understand the importance of having a predictable release schedule for
Read more →One thing you should realize by now is that the Gluon team doesn't sit still! In the past few days we've announced the release of Gluon Charm developer preview 4, IntelliJ live templates, and the JavaOne conference application. This is just the start – brace yourselves for a very busy October! Today we are open
Read more →The Gluon engineering team keep churning out the hits! Today we are announcing the release of the Gluon JavaOne Conference app, that has been in development by some of our team over the last few months. This application does as much as we are allowed to do, namely: It shows you all JavaOne sessions, with
Read more →A number of the team at Gluon are fans of IntelliJ IDEA (although not all of us – other team members use Eclipse and NetBeans too – which might explain why we have Gluon IDE tooling for all three major IDEs). We are constantly exploring the various corners of IntelliJ IDEA, and this week we
Read more →The Gluon engineering team has today signed off on Gluon Mobile Developer Preview 4. This release includes a number of improvements, including brand new 'material design' styling for tabs and sliders, a brand new Avatar control, improvements to the material design snackbar and toast popups, and bug fixes. Gluon Mobile is a client-side Java library
Read more →As we published a few days ago, the new Charm Developer Preview release includes a new control intended to create more mobile-friendly user interfaces. This control is called CharmListView, the enhanced Gluon version of the standard JavaFX ListView control. It is demonstrated in 50 States, a new application that makes use of this control, being released
Read more →Until now, most of the news coming out of Gluon has been focused on the client aspects of our technology. We now have many people using our Gluon Charm library for building cross-platform Java applications on desktop, mobile, and embedded, all with compelling and modern user interfaces. As was expected, we received a large number
Read more →It's a small milestone, but we are pleased to now be communicating directly into your inboxes! For those of you reading this, you probably didn't get the email in your inbox (it's not too late to sign up for the next one!). If you don't want to get our newsletter in your inbox every month
Read more →Today the Gluon engineering team signed off on our third developer preview release of Gluon Mobile. This release builds on our earlier developer releases. The primary new feature is the CharmListView control, an enhanced version of the JavaFX standard ListView control. If you are interested in knowing how to use the control and how it
Read more →Gluon is a hive of activity these days – our team is working closely with clients on training and consulting services, developing the next releases of Gluon Mobile and Gluon Cloud, developing our open source libraries, and developing new products that will be released in the coming months. One program we've created recently and which
Read more →After having released the Gluon Plugin for both NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA, we can proudly announce support for another major development platform: Eclipse. In this post, we will briefly go through the installation process and explain how to create your first basic Gluon application that can be deployed on desktop, Android and iOS devices. Prerequisites
Read more →At Gluon, we are working very hard in order to make JavaFX the best possible client development platform for desktop, mobile and embedded. Our efforts have not been gone unnoticed, as you can tell from the coverage we got recently: Firstly, Voxxed features a nice article on Gluon Bids to Pick Up Commercial Slack on
Read more →We are happy to announce that Gluon is now providing binary releases of the JavaFX SDK for embedded systems that are using the armv6 hard float architecture (e.g. the Raspberry Pi). The builds we provide are entirely based on the source code available in the OpenJFX project which is also the source for the JavaFX
Read more →The Gluon team today announces the opening of the Gluon Store. A huge amount of our effort in the past few months has been working with our executive team and marketing gurus to organize the two offerings that are in our store starting today, as well as build out the backend infrastructure for subscriptions and
Read more →As of today, Gluon is proud to be hosting the JavaFXPorts website. The JavaFXPorts website at http://javafxports.org was previously hosted and maintained by our friends at LodgON. JavaFXPorts maintainer and LodgON CTO Johan Vos decided to bundle all the LodgON JavaFX activities into Gluon. The JavaFXPorts documentation, available at http://docs.gluonhq.com/javafxports/ is now being created using
Read more →As the Gluon team prepares the next round of news items relating to Gluon Mobile, Gluon Cloud, and our various other projects, we thought it would be wise to allow for our customers and community to opt-in to our Gluon newsletter. This will be a relatively infrequent posting (at most once a month) that comes
Read more →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 our sessions – we look
Read more →After we released the Gluon NetBeans Plugin a while ago (get it here), we’ve been working very hard on developing the plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. And now we proudly present it! You can download it from JetBrains, or you can directly install it from Idea IDE. In this blog post, we’ll explain briefly how to
Read more →This post will be a walk-through of all the steps required to create an application using Gluon Mobile that could be deployed on desktop and mobile platforms like Android or iOS. Prerequisites Before getting any further, please check that you have installed these prerequisites: JavaFXPorts: Check Getting Started and check the list of prerequisites for
Read more →Today we are pleased to announce that José Pereda has joined Gluon as a software engineer working on the Gluon Mobile library, as well as being involved in customer engagements and training. José holds a PhD from the University of Valladolid, where he has worked for the last 18 years. In the last few years
Read more →Today the Gluon engineering team signed off on our first developer preview release of Gluon Mobile. This release is intended to gather user feedback and bug reports that will be used to guide future developer preview releases, ultimately culminating in the first 1.0.0 release of Gluon Mobile. Post any feedback you may have to our
Read more →Today Gluon announces that Jonathan Giles (on Twitter @JonathanGiles) has joined the Gluon advisory board. For those of you that don't know Jonathan, he is a principal member of technical staff at Oracle Corp, where he works in the Java team on JavaFX technologies. Jonathan has been a long time proponent of Java client technology,
Read more →We are very pleased to announce that in the past two weeks Gluon has received confirmation that IWT, the Flemish government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology, is now co-funding the development of both of our commercial products: Gluon Mobile and Gluon Cloud. We are so incredibly honored by this announcement – this six-figure
Read more →We get an increasing number of requests for Java training at Gluon, so we decided it is time to start scheduling more training sessions. As you can read on our training pages, we offer different training modules: The Java Client Basics module explores the core concepts of JavaFX, introduces you to the Scene Graph and
Read more →Recently Johan Vos, one of the Gluon co-founders, was interviewed by Voxxed. He covers a number of topics, so everyone interested in what is happening inside Gluon should definitely head over there to take a look. Topics that are covered include our continued support for Scene Builder, what we're working on, and our future plans.
Read more →We've had an amazing amount of interest in our Gluon Mobile 'Glisten' library since revealing it in March, and the inbox has been flooded since our first teaser trailer came out. In this post we wanted to give you a few more details on what Glisten is, how you'll use it, and who it is
Read more →Gluon Glisten is one of the sub-components of the forthcoming Gluon Mobile library. The focus of Glisten is to make your apps shine! It includes a simple application framework, as well as custom UI controls and customization to existing JavaFX UI controls to ensure that your apps fit in on mobile and embedded devices. The design has
Read more →One of the components in an end-to-end Java Mobile solution is the integration with low-level platform APIs. This is exactly what the Charm Down module intends to address. Using Charm Down, you write code that access device and hardware features using a uniform, platform-independent API. At runtime, the appropriate implementation (charm-down-desktop, charm-down-android, charm-down-ios) makes sure
Read more →Due to popular demand, we are now making available a 64-bit build of Scene Builder, as well as the Scene Builder Kit library, over at the downloads page. For all Windows users of Scene Builder, we highly recommend you use the 64-bit version if your system supports it (which it should). For those of your
Read more →Java developers love their IDE, and we want to allow Java developers to use their IDE and create JavaFX Mobile applications. Therefore, we are happy to announce that we have a plugin for NetBeans that allows you to create a JavaFX Application and deploy it to Android and iOS devices. The NetBeans Plugin is called
Read more →Earlier this week, we released SceneBuilder 8.0.0 as a single jar file. You can easily start SceneBuilder with the command java -jar SceneBuilderApp.jar Being supporters of self-contained applications, we now offer Scene Builder 8.0.0 as a self-install application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The applications come with the required runtime (Java 8u40), so
Read more →Today, we are announcing Gluon, a company delivering services and products for creating end-to-end Java client Applications. Gluon fits very well in the Java client ecosystem, as it extends the JavaFX platform and the related open source projects with enterprise functionality and commercial support. The JavaFX Platform, especially the JavaFX 8u40 release that is part
Read more →Oracle recently announced that Scene Builder will not be released in build form – only as source code within the OpenJFX project. Gluon is a strong believer in the value of tools, and as such we are pleased to announce that we will be providing builds of Scene Builder from this website. Not only that,
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