Photos from yesterday's Community Meeting

Thanks to all having participated in yesteday's Community Meeting!!!
Please find some photos below (thanks, Antje, for taking them!).
Regards, Björn

JavaFX based Rich Client Applications - IX. CaptainCasa Community Meeting

Begin of October 2013 we released version 5.0 of our rich client framework "CaptainCasa Enterprise Client". Version 5.0 now includes a full JavaFX frontend, running as rich client in front of server side business applications.

All tooling is available in JavaFX as well, so the framework is 100% JavaFX!

This year's CaptainCasa Community Meeting on 11th of December 2013 is a good opportunity to get to know the framework, the people around it - and to see a lot of JavaFX being used in the context of (big) business applications...! The community meeting is held in Heidelberg, Germany. More information is available here: http://www.captaincasa.com/pdf/eclnt_CommunityMeeting_IX.pdf

In case of interest please contact info@CaptainCasa.com.



CaptainCasa Demo Workplace, screenshot:

http://www.CaptainCasa.com

IX. CaptainCasa Community Meeting

The IX.CaptainCasa Community meeting will be held on 11th of December close to Heidelberg, Germany.

Please find some more info her:
http://www.CaptainCasa.com/pdf/eclnt_CommunityMeeting_IX.pdf  

This year of course the JavaFX client will play an important role. During last year's community meeting we decided to go the JavaFX way, based on some first implementation proof of concepty. In the meantime the JavaFX client is part of our delivery since June 2013 - and was quite silently released with our 5.0 release from 1st of October 2013.

Everyone using CaptainCasa Enterprise Client and/or being interested in CaptainCasa is invited. Please register by mail (info@CaptainCasa.com).

Regards, Björn

CaptainCasa Wandertag 2013

Unter diesem Link gibt es ein paar Bilder zum CaptainCasa Wandertag vom letzten Wochenende (21.09.2013). Danke nochmal an alle, die sich in den Süden Bayerns aufgemacht haben!!!

Björn

Documentation Update as Part of Release 5.0

In the meantime we published CaptainCasa Enterprise Client 5.0. We did not (yet) spread the message out, but are very close to do so... - background: we used the opprtunity to clean up some areas of CaptainCasa Enterprise Client, which are not related to the big "JavaFX message":

• The Developer's Guide was updated - some chapters (e.g. page navigation, workplace management) were completely rewritten. The whole Guide now bases on PageBeans being used for development consistently.
• The Demo workplace was updated as well: first of all we really had to exchange our "wp"-dispatcher by a "d"-dispatcher... In the documentation we have "#{d." expression everywhere, but the demo workplace had "#{wp." - this always was somehow confusing. And: all the examples showing navigation now also are based on page beans navigation.
• We added two new tech documents: one describing typical page bean patterns, one describing how to sign the client side jar files, so that the user sees your company behind the client software (and neither "Unknown publisher" nor "CaptainCasa").
• ...and, related to this: we now deliver the client side JAR-files with a CaptainCasa certificate.

Please note: from 4.0 compatibility point of view, the 5.0 update is a "normal" update. There is no special thing to follow: it is a direct successor of the 4.0 line. The key message of the 5.0 release is: JavaFX is now an official part - and not "in beta" as before.

Björn

Icupis - A very nice Product based on CaptainCasa

I received the follwing document by Makis Deftereos - the person behind a software product "Icupis" that manages information and processes within the intensive care unit of hospitals.

Icupis - pdf

So: pay attention when staying e.g. in the university hospital of Heraklion (Greece): you may see CaptainCasa screens!
 
Thanks a lot, Makis, for sending us the information!

CaptainCasa FX Client - Beta Phase started

The JavaFX based client of our rich client framework is now included in the normal installation package - marked as "Beta" of course. After installation you have the option to either use the Swing based client - ...or to use the JavaFX based client.

Both do the same, rendering screens - the layout of screens coming from a central JSF based server. So the rendering result is very similar. OK, with JavaFX it looks smarter - and animations are much nicer... ;-)

We currently concentrate on a Windows based delivery - just to save resources on our side. We will prepare explicit installation scenarios for Linux and MacOS later on. (For the brave ones: there is a zip package containing "everything you need", but some shell scripts to start the FX client are missing...)



A couple of improvements and bug fixing was done in the meantime...:

Images now can be mirrored and sheared just by adding some prefix in front of the image-URL:

This is a general feature of all images, regardless if it's shown in a button or if it's the background for a pane.

It's possible to now to add mapped-areas to an image definition. Each mapped area contains an id and some tooltip information. The user sees the mapped areas on top of the image when moving with the mouse over the corresponding area. Clicks are sent back to the server processing.

The screenshot is showing a gaphics (PNG) which was created by a JFreeChart based reporting on server side. JFreeChart has an interface to collect map-information, which is quite nice. ...OK, we know: JavaFX has some graphics library on its own to produce charts like the one above...! But still, most reporting systems are on server side, producing image output as PNG or whatever file.

Hot-Key definitions were added. Either hot-keys are added directly to cetrain components (e.g. Button) or the arey added to popup menu defintions. There's a flexible way to define which popup menu is valid for which area - so you can define one hot key to be used in different ways on different parts of the screen. (If you want so ...).

The slider and progressbar components are available now as well.

...all in all: everything quite fine from the JavaFX client development...! The beta phase is planned to be finished somewhere mid of Q2/2013.