JavaFX

Microsoft has Silverlight, Adobe has its Flex and now Java has its JavaFX. At work, we have a kiosk with super-cool UI. First we used Flash, completed another prototype in Flex but ditched it because it got too complicated to code and deploy. We switched to good old Swing and it worked as expected and looked neat. It is the first Java based thick app I really liked (stupid IBM DB2 command center flashes in my mind) and it works perfectly. Then came JavaFX and my fellow codemonkeys jumped on it. Here is a list of links to get started. Enjoy!

Main sites
http://sun.com/javafx/
https://openjfx.dev.java.net/

Overview

http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-0508/javafx/index.jsp

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070509-first-impressions-suns-javafx-platform-for-rich-application-
development.html

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/07/27/introduction-to-javafx-script.html

More tech-rich articles

part 1: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafxpart1/
part 2: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafxpart2/

http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/2007-07/index.html

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/09/javafx_javafx_s.html

FAQ

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_FAQ.html

Download JavaFX

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList

Eclipse plugin

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/javafx-eclipse-plugin-install.html

Alert: Whenever you open a .fx file, this plugin adds javafx libraries to build path and adds javafx nature to EVERY open project in your workspace.

Getting started

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/Getting_Started_With_JavaFX

Geting started with Eclipse

http://www.mrbool.com/articles/viewcomp.asp?comp=5549

http://www.thescreencast.com/2007/05/running-your-first-javafx-program-in.html

Reference

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_Programming_Language.html
http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Read JavaFX book in JavaFX - this is a very nice read and gives you a feeling of JavaFX capabilities as you read

http://jmentor.com/JavaFX/IndyJUGPres.jnlp

API reference

http://evc-cit.info/jfx/makeapi/api/index.html

Blogs

Chris Oliver
http://chaoticjava.com/posts/category/javafx/

Tools

A nice tool to get started: http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/

Translate SVG to JavaFX : http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/javafx_svg_translator_preview


Some known problems

http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com/2007/07/javafx-script-this-is-easy.html
http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Encountered_Issues