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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee

Overview of this book

Java 9 and its new features add to the richness of the language; Java is one of the languages most used by developers to build robust software applications. Java 9 comes with a special emphasis on modularity with its integration with Jigsaw. This course is your one-stop guide to mastering the language. You'll be provided with an overview and explanation of the new features introduced in Java 9 and the importance of the new APIs and enhancements. Some new features of Java 9 are ground-breaking; if you are an experienced programmer, you will be able to make your enterprise applications leaner by learning these new features. You'll be provided with practical guidance in applying your newly acquired knowledge of Java 9 and further information on future developments of the Java platform. This course will improve your productivity, making your applications faster. Next, you'll go on to implement everything you've learned by building 10 cool projects. You will learn to build an email filter that separates spam messages from all your inboxes, a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, and a microservice for a client/server note application, to name just a few. By the end of this course, you will be well acquainted with Java 9 features and able to build your own applications and projects. This Learning Path contains the best content from the following two recently published Packt products: • Mastering Java 9 • Java 9 Programming Blueprints
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Title Page - Courses
Packt Upsell - Courses
Preface
25
Taking Notes with Monumentum
Bibliography
Index

Creating the desktop application


To build our application, we'll return to NetBeans and JavaFX. As in the previous chapters, we'll create a new Maven-based JavaFX application by clicking on File | New Project:

In the next step, call the project deskdroid-desktop, verify the package name, and click on Finish. While not strictly necessary, let's clean up the naming a bit, changing the controller to DeskDroidController, and the FXML file to deskdroid.fxml. We'll also need to modify the references to the FXML and the CSS in the controller, and the reference to the controller in the FXML. Click on Run | Run Project to make sure everything is wired up correctly. Once the app starts, we can immediately close it so we can start making changes.

Defining the user interface

Let's start by building up the user interface. Here's what the application will look like:

In the preceding screen, we'll have our list of conversations on the left, and we will display the selected conversation on the right. We will...