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  An interview with Jasper Potts about the new JavaFX Scene Builder. 
  Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are
Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador and Arun Gupta, Java EE Guy. 
   
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  Show Notes 
    
  News 
   
    JavaFX Scene Builder Developer Preview available for testing. 
    Java EE  
     
      Unlock the Java EE 6 Platform using NetBeans 7.1 
      Tuning GlassFish for Production 
      JSF 2.2 Update from Ed Burns 
     
    John Rose at Microsoft's Lang.NEXT summit 
     
      Recording of John's Java 8 presentation 
      Jeroen Frijters' presentation on IKVM.NET 
      Martin Odersky's keynote 
      JVM Language Summit 2012 
       
        July 30 – August 1; Oracle Santa Clara (same as last year) 
        CFP coming in a few days 
        JVM Language Summit 2011 Presentations & Recordings 
       
     
    Proposed development schedule for JDK 8 
     
      Say hello to Mathias Axelsson 
     
   
  Events 
   
    April 11, Cleveland JUG, Cleveland, OH 
    April 12, GreenJUG, Greenville, SC 
    April 17-18, JavaOne Russia, Moscow Russia 
    April 18–20, Devoxx France, Paris, France 
    April 17-20, GIDS, Bangalore 
    April 21, Java Summit, Chennai 
    April 26, Mix-IT, Lyon, France,  
    May 3-4, JavaOne India, Hyderabad, India  
    May 5, Bangalore, Pune, ?? - JUG outreach 
    May 7, OTN Developer Day, Mumbai 
    May 8, OTN Developer Day, Delhi 
   
  Feature InterviewJasper
 Potts is the Developer Experience Architect for the Java Client Group 
at Oracle. Responsible for technical design for everything thats sis on 
the core platform including Controls, Tools, Samples and Blueprints. 
Formally a lead engineer on the JavaFX & Swing teams working on the 
new JavaFX UI Controls and Graphics frameworks. Also responsible for 
designing, developing and presenting demos during the keynotes at 
JavaOne and Devoxx. A JavaOne Rockstar presenter having presented many 
sessions on JavaFX and Swing at many conferences. Prior to Sun he 
founded Xerto a desktop applications company developing Imagery a Java 
professional photo management application. In this interview Jasper 
talks about the recently release JavaFX Scene Builder. 
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