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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien
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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

Overview of this book

JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish Internet applications by modifying these default components, even advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX components to work with and by default these components don't look visually appealing.This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich applications.First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development tools available to help you be productive during development. You will create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish interactions with computing platforms.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Mobile JavaFX
JavaFX Composer
JavaFX Products and Frameworks
Best Practices for Development
Best Practices for Deployment

Packaging your app to be Web Start(ed)


You have couple of options when it comes to distributing your JavaFX desktop applications. The first option is to ship your app to your users as raw JAR files launched from the command line. While this gives the application full access to local resources. However, it is not officially supported (as of version 1.2) and will run the code unmanaged and unable to take advantage of the deployment services, such as auto-update, JRE detection, and so on.

The preferred option is to facilitate the download and seamless installation and execution of your application through Java Web Start, a deployment and execution container built on the Java platform. In this recipe, we will use the JavaFX packager tool to build and package our application to be distributed using Java Web Start.

Getting ready

This recipe will use the javafxpackager tool to build and package the sample application. If you are not familiar with javafxpackager, review the previous recipe. If you...