In his JavaOne 2011 presentation on JavaFX Architecture Richard Bair's program agenda covers architecture, observable collections, properties, events, callbacks, and threading. Rather than concentrating on the JavaFX Public APIs and Scenegraph, Bair focuses his presentation of the implementation on the toolkit interface, the quantum toolkit, Prism, and Glass. Blogger robilad provides links to both Nicolas Lorain's Introduction to JavaFX 2.0, which he recommends as an introduction, and to Bair's above mentioned presentation. Both talks are on parleys.com and both are one hour plus in length.
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A significant announcement at JavaOne, Terrence Barr reminds readers of his blog, was the news that JavaFX 2.0 is available for MacOS X as a developer preview, along with NetBeans 7.1 Beta, which includes full support for JavaFX 2.0 as well as Java 7. Barr provides links to these downloads as well as to FAQs on JavaFX 2.0. A further link leads to a tutorial on JavaFX 2.0 that deals with getting started, creating a user interface, effects, animation and media, application logic, API reference and deployment.
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Among the many announcements from Oracle at JavaOne 2011 was the news that JavaFFX 2.0 is now available. JavaFX 2.0 is an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle also announced their intention to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community. Oracle intends to initially contribute the JavaFX UI controls and related libraries; other JavaFX components are planned to follow in multiple phases.
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"Top Five Docs to Introduce You to JavaFX" covers several aspects of the new release of JavaFX 2.0 Beta. The titles include:
What is JavaFX?: Maybe you've worked with previous versions of JavaFX or maybe you are new to JavaFX. Either way, this doc explains the features of JavaFX 2.0 Beta and what type of applications you can build with it.
Getting Started With JavaFX: Once you've gotten a feel for JavaFX, you're ready to try building an application. This guide steps you through the basics of a JavaFX application, then shows how to enhance the application with visual effects and bring it to life with animation.
JavaFX Architecture and Framework: Now for a little deep diving. This guide explains the JavaFX 2.0 APIs and the programming model.
UI Controls and Layout: Many applications need controls. Here you'll learn about the button, text box, scroll bar, and the rest of the controls, and also how to ensure they are properly positioned, aligned, and resized. You'll see samples of how to use each control.
But wait, there's more: There is documentation about the JavaFX scene graph, embedded browser, media, interoperability with Swing, and more.
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JavaFX 2.0 Beta is available according to blogger Tori Weildt who writes, "this release is the latest development in Oracle’s long-term commitment (roadmap) "to making JavaFX a premier rich client platform." Weildt says, "JavaFX provides a powerful and expressive Java-based UI platform capable of handling large-scale computationally intensive data-driven business applications, Weildt maintains, adding that . JavaFX applications, which are completely developed in Java nonetheless leverage the power of standards-based programming practices and design patterns. JavaFX provides a rich set of UI controls, graphics and media API with high-performance hardware-accelerated graphics, web and media engines to simplify development of immersive visual applications, Weildt adds, noting that developers in JavaFX can preserve existing investments by reusing Java libraries in their JavaFX applications and can even access native system capabilities via the Java native interface, or seamlessly connect to server-based Java EE middleware applications.
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