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JavaFX In Action with Christoph Schwentker about JabRef

Here is the next "JFX In Action" with Christoph Schwentker about JabRef!

About Christoph

Christoph Schwentker is a (Kotlin) software developer at System Integration Laboratory GmbH (SIL) in Germany. He is one of the main maintainers of the JabRef project.

You can find him on LinkedIn.

About JabRef

JabRef is a tool written in Java and JavaFX to collect, organize, and discover literature for research projects. It was founded in 2003 and has since been used by many students and researchers. Its mission is to advance knowledge and improve scientific research. JabRef values open access to information and believes modern science can be built on an open institutional structure. JabRef is developed as free, open-source software and saves your data in a simple text-based file format with no vendor lock-in.

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Screenshot of JabRef

Video content

00:00 Who is Christoph?

00:22 What is JabRef?

02:34 Different code needed for all search sources

03:37 Demo of JabRef

04:31 Open-source project team

05:21 Advantages of JavaFX

07:47 Building as desktop app with GitHub Actions

09:37 Using the latest JavaFX version

11:01 Plans for the future

13:12 About custom styling

14:37 About JLink and JDeploy

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