JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet Client-side Applications at Dominant Systems Book Store

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.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I bought this book because it was the the only thing available for JavaFX at the time. I tried to work through some of the examples, but was disappointed to find out the even the HelloWorld program would not compile. After going a bit deeper, I realized that major keywords have changed, and entire packages have been moved or rewritten or dropped since the book was written. The book also moves very quickly into a fairly complex example program that takes several chapters to complete, and translating between the old syntax and the new syntax doesn't look very easy. Don't get me wrong - this was a well written book at the time. However, due to the number of changes in the JavaFX language, it is at best useless and at worst misleading. I am a person who likes to learn a new technology by reading a good book, where someone has taken the time to distill the essentials into as compact a form as possible. I can tell you after reading through this book, either wait for the next edition or for one of the other pending books that is based on the 1.0 release of the language. You will find that you are much better off trying to work this technology out from the more correct information that is published on the internet rather than from this book.

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