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Use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications and discover how you can use this powerful Java-based UI platform, which is capable of handling large-scale data-driven business applications for PC as well as mobile and embedded devices. The expert authors cover the new more modular JavaFX 9 APIs, development tools, and best practices and provide code examples that explore the exciting new features provided with JavaFX 9, part of Oracles new Java 9 release. Pro JavaFX 9: A Definitive Guide to Building Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded Java Clients also contains engaging tutorials that cover virtually every facet of JavaFX development and reference materials on JavaFX that augment the JavaFX API documentation.

New material in this edition includes JavaFX UI controls and CSS APIs for modularization. Additionally, there is coverage of the Shader DSL for JavaFX that allows you to generate Shaders for OpenGL and Direct3D. After reading and using this book, youll have the knowledge to give you an edge in your next JavaFX-based project.

What Youll Learn

Create a user interface in JavaFX
Use SceneBuilder to create a user interface
Build dynamic UI layouts in JavaFX and using the JavaFX UI controls
Create charts in JavaFX
Design and deploy for embedded, mobile and tablet
Leverage JavaFX languages and markup

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Experienced Java programmers looking to learn and leverage JavaFX 9 for rich client-side Java development.

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Johan Vos, Stephen Chin, Weiqi Gao, James Weaver, and Dean Iverson 2018

Johan Vos , Stephen Chin , Weiqi Gao , James Weaver and Dean Iverson Pro JavaFX 9

1. Getting a Jump-Start in JavaFX

Johan Vos 1, Stephen Chin 2, Weiqi Gao 3, James Weaver 4 and Dean Iverson 5

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Leuven, Belgium

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BELMONT, California, USA

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Ballwin, Missouri, USA

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Marion, Indiana, USA

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Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

At the annual JavaOne conference in May 2007, Sun Microsystems announced a new product family named JavaFX. Its stated purpose includes enabling the development and deployment of content-rich applications on consumer devices such as cell phones, televisions, in-dash car systems, and browsers. Josh Marinacci, a software engineer at Sun, made the following statement, very appropriately, in a Java Posse interview: JavaFX is sort of a code word for reinventing client Java and fixing the sins of the past. He was referring to the fact that Java Swing and Java 2D have lots of capability, but are also very complex. Furthermore, technologies have evolved a lot since Swing and Java 2D were created. Todays client systems (desktops as well as mobile and embedded devices) are equipped with powerful graphical processorsthe GPU. JavaFX takes advantage of the new features and performance increases offered by GPUs. By using FXML , JavaFX allows us to simply and elegantly express user interfaces (UIs) with a declarative programming style. It also leverages the full power of Java, because you can instantiate and use the millions of Java classes that exist today. Add features such as binding the UI to properties in a model and change listeners that reduce the need for setter methods, and you have a combination that will help restore Java to the client-side Internet applications.

In this chapter, we give you a jump-start in developing JavaFX applications. After bringing you up to date on the brief history of JavaFX, we show you how to get the required tools. We also explore some great JavaFX resources and walk you through the process of compiling and running JavaFX applications. In the process, youll learn a lot about the JavaFX application programming interface (API) as we walk through application code together.

A Brief History of JavaFX

JavaFX started life as the brainchild of Chris Oliver when he worked for a company named SeeBeyond. They had a need for richer user interfaces, so Chris created a language that he dubbed F3 (Form Follows Function) for that purpose. In the article Mind-Bendingly Cool Innovation (cited in the Resources section at the end of this chapter), Chris is quoted as follows: When it comes to integrating people into business processes, you need graphical user interfaces for them to interact with, so there was a use case for graphics in the enterprise application space, and there was an interest at SeeBeyond in having richer user interfaces.

SeeBeyond was acquired by Sun, who subsequently changed the name of F3 to JavaFX, and announced it at JavaOne 2007. Chris Oliver joined Sun during the acquisition and continued to lead the development of JavaFX.

The first version of JavaFX Script was an interpreted language, and was considered a prototype of the compiled JavaFX Script language that was to come later. Interpreted JavaFX Script was very robust, and there were two JavaFX books published in the latter part of 2007 based on that version. One was written in Japanese, and the other was written in English ( JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications by Jim Weaver (Apress, 2007)).

While developers were experimenting with JavaFX and providing feedback for improvement, the JavaFX Script compiler team at Sun was busy creating a compiled version of the language. This included a new set of runtime API libraries. The JavaFX Script compiler project reached a tipping point in early December 2007, which was commemorated in a blog post entitled Congratulations to the JavaFX Script Compiler TeamThe Elephant Is Through the Door. That phrase came from the JavaFX Script compiler project leader Tom Ball in a blog post, which contained the following excerpt.

An elephant analogy came to me when I was recently grilled about exactly when the JavaFX Script compiler team will deliver our first milestone release. I cant give you an accurate date, I said. Its like pushing an elephant through a door; until a critical mass makes it past the threshold you just dont know when youll be finished. Once you pass that threshold, though, the rest happens quickly and in a manner that can be more accurately predicted.

A screenshot of the silly, compiled JavaFX application written by one of the authors, Jim Weaver, for that post is shown in Figure , demonstrating that the project had in fact reached the critical mass to which Tom Ball referred.

Figure 1-1.

Screenshot for the Elephant Is Through the Door program

Much progress continued to be made on JavaFX in 2008:

The NetBeans JavaFX plug-in became available for the compiled version in March 2008.
Many of the JavaFX runtime libraries (mostly focusing on the UI aspects of JavaFX) were rewritten by a team that included some very talented developers from the Java Swing team.
In July 2008, the JavaFX Preview Software Development Kit (SDK) was released, and at JavaOne 2008, Sun announced that the JavaFX 1.0 SDK would be released in fall 2008.
On December 4, 2008, the JavaFX 1.0 SDK was released. This event increased the adoption rate of JavaFX by developers and IT managers because it represented a stable codebase.
In April 2009, Oracle and Sun announced that Oracle would be acquiring Sun. The JavaFX 1.2 SDK was released at JavaOne 2009.
In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun. The JavaFX 1.3 SDK was released in April 2010, with JavaFX 1.3.1 being the last of the 1.3 releases.

At JavaOne 2010, JavaFX 2.0 was announced. The JavaFX 2.0 roadmap was published by Oracle and included items such as the following.

Deprecate the JavaFX Script language in favor of using Java and the JavaFX 2.0 API. This brings JavaFX into the mainstream by making it available to any language (e.g., Java, Groovy, and JRuby) that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) . As a consequence, existing developers do not need to learn a new language, but they can use existing skills and start developing JavaFX applications.
Make the compelling features of JavaFX Script, including binding to expressions, available in the JavaFX 2.0 API .
Offer an increasingly rich set of UI components, building on the components already available in JavaFX 1.3.
Provide a Web component for embedding HTML and JavaScript content into JavaFX applications.
Enable JavaFX interoperability with Swing.
Rewrite the media stack from the ground up.

JavaFX 2.0 was released at JavaOne 2011, and has enjoyed a greatly increased adoption rate due to the innovative features articulated previously.

JavaFX 8 marked another important milestone. JavaFX is now an integral part of the Java Platform, Standard Edition.

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