Java Fx

Java Fx Overview:

JavaFx Scirpt

JavaFX Platform Components

Technical Highlights Of JavaFx

Why the JavaFX Platform?

The JavaFX platform contains an essential set of tools and technologies that enable developers and designers to collaborate, create, and deploy applications with expressive content to browsers and desktops. Mobile application developers can use the JavaFX Mobile Emulator to preview applications for mobile devices using the JavaFX platform.

Key features of the JavaFX platform

• One-stop-shop expressive content design and development platform for all screens:Build engaging visual experiences across desktop, browser and mobile with a unified development and deployment model. The most powerful and pervasive platform in the industry is now the most expressive!
  
  
• Broadest market reach: Devices can open up to the broadest portfolio of content and services in the industry. Applications can be distributed across billions of devices with the power of Java. Mobile developers can efficiently target their content to as many mobile devices as possible.
  
  
• Broadest access to mobile device capabilities: JavaFX is the best way to bring expressive, feature-rich content to mobile devices. JavaFX Mobile brings expressiveness to Java ME, to combine the richest mobile experience with the most access to the underlying system and across the broadest number of devices.
  
  
• Lower implementation cost: Builds on your pre-existing investment in Java. Developers can use any Java library within a JavaFX application to build expressive interfaces. In mobile devices, JavaFX builds on top of the existing Java ME and Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) platforms to reduce implementation costs for device manufacturers.
  
  
• Designer-developer workflow: Dramatically shorten your production cycle for design and development by using JavaFX Production Suite to incorporate multimedia assets from popular third-party design tools.
  
  
• Powerful runtime: Leverage the extreme ubiquity, power, performance and security of the Java runtime.
  
  
• Break free from the browser: With Java SE 6 update 10 and beyond, you can drag-to-Install applications from your browser directly onto your desktop. This innovative feature is an industry first and providers developers with new channels to get their content to their target end users.

JavaFX Platform Tools

Developer Bundle

The developer bundle contains the following tools.

• NetBeans IDE for JavaFX
  
  The JavaFX technology is integrated with the NetBeans IDE, a mature and powerful development environment that makes it easy to build, preview, and debug JavaFX applications.
  
  The NetBeans IDE for JavaFX is easy to learn, and it comes bundled with the JavaFX SDK and lots of sample applications.
  
  The NetBeans editor features a drag and drop palette to quickly add JavaFX statements, including transformations, effects and animation.
  
  
• JavaFX Plugin for NetBeans
  
  If you are already using the NetBeans IDE, you can add the JavaFX plugin to include support for developing JavaFX applications.

Designer Bundle

The designer bundle consists of JavaFX Production Suite, a single download that contains the following tools to enable designers to exchange visual assets with developers.

JavaFX Plugin for Adobe Photoshop and JavaFX Plugin for Adobe Illustrator
Plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator export graphic assets from creative designer tools to the JavaFX format.

• JavaFX Media Factory
  
  
  
  JavaFX Media Factory contains two separate tools:
  
  
  • SVG Converter: Convert SVG graphics into the JavaFX format 
    
    
  • JavaFX Graphics Viewer: View graphic assets that were converted to the JavaFX format. JavaFX Graphics Viewer allows you to preview each graphic as it will appear in either desktop or mobile applications.

Stand-alone SDK

If you prefer using other tools, or developing directly via the command line, you can download the stand-alone SDK.

• JavaFX SDK
  
  The SDK includes the following components (also included when you download NetBeans IDE for JavaFX 
  
  
  • JavaFX Desktop Runtime
  • JavaFX Mobile Emulator (for Windows)
  • JavaFX APIs
  • JavaFX Compiler
  • JavaFX API documentation
  • Samples

Features  & Benefits Of JavaFx

JavaFx Script Features

• JavaFX Script uses a declarative syntax for specifying GUI components, so a developer's code closely matches the actual layout of the GUI
• Through declarative databinding and incremental evaluation, JavaFX Script enables developers to easily create and configure individual components by automatically synchronizing application data and GUI components
• JavaFX Script will work with all major IDEs, including NetBeans, which is the reference implementation IDE for Java development
• Unlike many other Java scripting languages, JavaFX Script is statically typed and will have most of the same code structuring, reuse, and encapsulation features that make it possible to create and maintain very large programs in Java
• JavaFX Script is capable of supporting GUIs of any size or complexity
• JavaFX Script makes it easier to use Swing, one of the best GUI development toolkits of its kind

Example Program Of JavaFx Script

JavaFX Script's declarative syntax for constructing user interfaces contrasts sharply with the more verbose series of method calls required to construct an equivalent interface in Swing directly.

Here is a simple Hello world program for JavaFX Script :

import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
Stage {
    title: "Hello World"
    width: 250
    height: 80
    scene: Scene {
        content: Text {
            font : Font {
                size : 24
            }
            x: 10, y: 30
            content: "Hello World"
        }
    } 
}

It shows the following window/frame :

          
          

           
           
           
           

           
           

           
           
           
           
This program can also be written in this way:
           
           
import javafx.ext.swing.*;
var myFrame:SwingFrame = new SwingFrame();
var myLabel:Label = new Label();
myLabel.text = "Hello World!";
myFrame.width = 200;
myFrame.height = 50;
myFrame.visible = true;
myFrame.content = myLabel;

          
          

JavaFx Licensing

• The core JavaFX runtime is still proprietary software and its code has not yet been released to the public,[5]
• The JavaFX compiler[6] and an older version of the 2D Scene graph[7] are released under a GPL v2 license,
• The NetBeans plugin for JavaFX is dual licensed under GPL v2 and CDDL.[5]

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