Star Base Inc.

No, this isn’t a Cincinnati law firm, it’s my latest project. While at JavaOne this year, I took a lab on using Zembly. The lab was very interesting, and somewhat chaotic, but they gave me a book on Zembly. For those application development guys who don’t know, Zembly is a framework that allows developers to deploy their applications to social networks like Facebook, twitter, or Orkut.  I brought this idea up to my boss, who was interested in what we could do. I decided to create a simple questionnaire on our IT Wellness Check service. I know you can create simple questionnaires in Facebook, but I wanted a more polished look than black text on a white background. I wrote the app in JavaFX, because of the gradients and effects that are available to me.  Netbeans not only has JavaFx application development, it also has the facebook API integrated. I did check on the Internet that I can use JavaFX with Zembly, and you can. Once complete, I brought up the Zembly site.  I created a widget in Zembly, and after a couple of missteps, I got my questionnaire working in Zembly. On to the Facebook integration! Zembly makes all of the particulars of integration painless, but there are scant details on the web. Fortunately, I had my book from JavaOne, and there were step by step details on integration. I now have an application on Facebook! Don’t look for it yet, because the application itself was just a test. Once polished, we will have it out there. I am going to finish phase one of JFretsFX, and put that out on Facebook too.