Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tom Ball is a distinguished engineer with the Developer Products Platform at Sun Microsystems, Inc., working on JavaFX tools. He has presented advanced technical talks at several JavaOne conferences, including the first JavaOne in San Francisco.Previously, Tom spent two years as part of the NetBeans team, integrating Java modeling technology researched while at Sun Laboratories. He also served as the Tools Architect for Sun's iPlanet division, and spent seven years as a key member of JavaSoft's core, AWT and Swing teams. He designed the first Java debugger API, rewrote the Windows AWT for JDK 1.1, and helped design Swing and the 1.1 AWT event model.
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Tom has over twenty-five years industry experience; eighteen years experience with object-oriented languages and tools, the last twelve focused primarily on Java (starting when it was still called Oak).
Presentations by Tom Ball
JavaFX: Evolution of the Java Client
The talk will provide an introduction to GUI development withJavaFX Script, a new object-oriented, declarative programming language
for the Java Platform. JavaFX Script is a statically-typed language,
with compile-time error reporting and has type inference, declarative
syntax, and automatic data binding with full support for 2-D graphics
and standard Swing components as well as declarative animation. You can
also import Java classes, create new Java objects, call their methods,
and implement Java interfaces. IDE plug-ins are available for both the
NetBeans IDE and Eclipse. Both plug-ins support as-you-type validation,
code completion, syntax highlighting, and hyperlink navigation (with
Control-mouseover).
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