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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
