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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By : Jason Lee
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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By: Jason Lee

Overview of this book

Java is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. From playing games on your computer to performing banking transactions, Java is at the heart of everything. The book starts by unveiling the new features of Java 9 and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. There are 10 comprehensive projects in the book that will showcase the various features of Java 9. 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 a few. The book covers various libraries and frameworks in these projects, and also introduces a few more frameworks that complement and extend the Java SDK. Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Java 9, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
9
Taking Notes with Monumentum

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...