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Things are happening in the JavaFX Script community, especially the JavaFX Script compiler community. Since my presentation on JavaFX Script at the St. Louis JUG 135 days ago, I have been somewhat more involved with the JavaFX Script community. In this post I'll mention a few items that I've made a contribution.

The Book

The list of requisite books post I made 171 days ago was of course a joke. What I didn't expect was when Jim Weaver, an Apress author, contacted me, after my JUG presentation, to be the technical reviewer for a new book on JavaFX Script.

Of course I'm very glad to have this opportunity to make a contribution. The book was published by Apress in October 2007. I'm probably not an unbiased reviewer, but I can state that Jim's book is probably the most approachable treatment of the subject. It is based on the current version of JavaFX Script interpreter. And the knowledge about the JavaFX Script interpreter should transfer very nicely to the JavaFX Script compiler paradigm.

Go ahead and buy this book from Apress or Amazon.

The Blog

After finishing the book, Jim launched James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog.

This blog is geared towards disseminating JavaFX Script knowledge in bite-sized articles and communicating the up-to-the-minute happenings of JavaFX Script development community. Here's a sampling of the posts on the blog:

Putting My CTO Hat On: In this post I want to share with you some things about JavaFX Script, leading up to our company's (LAT, Inc.) perspective and plans for using JavaFX Script.

1. JavaFX Script's relationship to Java
2. Some features and advantages of JavaFX Script
3. The current status of JavaFX Script
4. Two very informative JavaFX Script mailing lists.
   
5. Our company's plans for using JavaFX Script

Achieving Closure in Compiled JavaFX Script: One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures. In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the local variables of the outer function.

Go ahead and subscribe to James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog.

The Weekly Puzzler

One fun feature of Jim's JavaFX Script blog is its weekly puzzlers. This feature is partially inspired by the Friday Java Quiz on this blog, but comes at more regular intervals and you can win a copy of the JavaFX Script book.

Here are some of the past puzzlers:

• JavaFX Puzzler
• JavaFX Puzzler 2
• JavaFX Puzzler 3

James Weaver: By the way, the next JavaFX Puzzler is going to require writing a compiled JavaFX Script program. This JavaFX Puzzler will be posted at 18:00 GMT (1:00 pm EST) on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. That should give you plenty of time to download and build the compiler, as well as to learn from past and future posts in the Compiled JavaFX Script category. ;-)

Go ahead and get your javafxc ready for the puzzler.