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JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet Client-side Applications
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by James L. Weaver
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Discount: 22 %
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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Apress October 29, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590599454
ISBN-13: 978-1590599457
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Book Description
JavaFX Script makes it easy for developers to quickly develop high-quality UI-intensive applications very quickly. As JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications demonstrates, developers can develop Rich Internet Applications and rich client-side user interfaces quickly and easily with this potential replacement for Ajax and perhaps even ActionScript and other scripting found in Flash. This firstPress book on JavaFX Scriptcovers the following topics: - The fundamentals of the JavaFX suite of technologies and the foundations of JavaFX Script and available tools
- How to create a Wordsearch application
- How to augment and enhance the Wordsearch application after learning more advanced JavaFX Script features such as classes, objects, UI components, and constructs.
What you’ll learn - Understand the JavaFX family and JavaFX Script and its relationship to the Java/Java SE 6 platform.
- Set up a JavaFX Script development and execution environment culminating in a Hello JFX application.
- Create a Wordsearch application and explore important JavaFX Script concepts by doing so.
- Survey the JavaFX UI Components including the commonly used ones that go into further building and enhancement of the Wordsearch application frame and menu structure.
- Use more advanced JavaFX Script language constructs for extending the Wordsearch application.
- Build JavaFX classes and objects, build the data model for the WordSearch application, and run the data model with a tester program.
- Develop the view for the Wordsearch application using a data model such as bind as well as drawing on a canvas.
- Explore more JavaFX Script concepts and possible IDE tie-ins to NetBeans, Eclipse, etc.
Who is this book for?
This book is for content developers and application developers with some programming experience who want to create rich internet applications. Related Titles
About The Author
James L. Weaver is the chief scientist at Learning Assistant Technologies, a company that specializes in developing learner-centric tools. He is also the president of JMentor, a Java mentoring, training, and consulting practice.
Customer Reviews & Comments
JavaFX is a great tool to leverage the advantages of all the vast Java class libraries and Swing in a declarative but statically typed style. I had come to this conclusion when I first noticed JavaFX through stumbling across a link on Sun's Java web-site and portal. The one thing that JavaFX lacked was a basic, get up to speed tutorial or book which didn't assume you were a programming dunce, didn't assume that you were somehow clueless about how Swing or SWT (or any modern) user interface library worked. This book filled the gap for me. I am a reasonably adept Swing GUI developer, can understand SWT and write it (but can't see any particular advantage to SWT unless you're using a product that already uses it or it's an Eclipse based product) and understand GTK+. Hence, I don't need a lecture on how GUIs work, what an event model is, what a widget is; nor do I need a how to program, what does Java syntax look like. This book gives you sufficient information to: determine if JavaFX may fit into your GUI needs, how to use JavaFX and Java classes together and how to put together a small, JavaFX application. Others have stated the application isn't real-world: I challenge them - I wrote a "real world" word place program for a client...games aren't "real world" but they contain very real concepts both in their play and in their creation. The book doesn't: teach you how to program Java or any other programming language; it's a fairly tutorial style book. JavaFX is the type of tool where you can bring up a small(ish) example and fiddle with bits to work out what changes. It doesn't teach you a heap about Swing but gives pointers to Swing documentation where appropriate. Those not used to programming or Swing may find it difficult to translate Swing documentation into what JavaFX does. It will show you how to make classes, but not why you'd make them and it presupposes you know a little about programming. That said, I do know these things and it was certainly worth my money. I think this book would suit anyone who wanted to peek at JavaFX to see what a basic, but functional example does. It would also suit someone who knew Java, who wanted to add JavaFX to their toolset. It would be less suitable for someone who didn't know what a "for" or "while" loop does and it doesn't go into great detail about "classes", "class hierarchies" and such. It's a good book and it augments and isn't, by any means, a regurgitation of online documentation.
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