Sergey Grinev - Mastering JavaFX 10

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Sergey Grinev is an experienced software engineer focused on building reliable, quality processes for Java platforms. He started working in this area during his employment with Oracle, where he was responsible for JavaFX testing. For the last few years, Sergey has worked for Azul Systems, assuring the quality of their custom JVMs.

Sergey enjoys sharing his experience: he regularly presents Java conferences, gives lessons, and solves questions on Stack Overflow.

Naman Nigam is a philomath currently working as a software developer with Flipkart. He is heavily involved in gamification and personalization platforms to develop services and features that are responsible for customer engagement at Flipkart. He keeps up to date with the technological upgrades available and their usages, while helping with code reviews, ensuring a consistent performance alongside.

The Flipkart tech team has been extremely helpful during the review process by providing environments where Naman was able to experiment with some of the latest Java releases.

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JavaFX is a set of libraries added to Java in order to provide capabilities to build a modern UI. It was added to Java a few releases ago, as old librariesSwing and AWTproved to be outdated and too burdened with backward compatibility issues.

JavaFX was designed and developed from scratch to provide Java developers with the capabilities to build modern, rich UI applications with a large set of shapes, controls, and charts. It was designed with performance in mind, is capable of using graphics cards, and is based on the new graphical engine.

In this book, we will study many aspects of JavaFX and go through a large set of examples based on these topics.

Developers who already use Java and want to add JavaFX to their skill set, students who study Java or computer science and want to use JavaFX to improve their projects, programmers familiar with JavaFX who want to enrich their experience and learn about the new features of the JavaFX 9 and 10 releases.

, Stages, Scenes, and Layout, starts from the essential basis of the JavaFX applicationStage, Scene, JavaFX Event Thread, and the layout graph concept.

, Building Blocks Shapes, Text, and Controls, fills the window we created in the previous chapter with various building blocks provided by the JavaFX API.

, Connecting Pieces Binding, explains that binding is a new method to greatly simplify communication between components.

, FXML, introduces FXML is a powerful tool for building a complex JavaFX UI and separating business logic from UI design. We will design an FXML application and try SceneBuilderan FXML-based UI designer tool.