Developing a note-taking application

Building an application for one platform just isn't good enough anymore. Desktop, Web, mobile, and embedded support are all required for a successful product, but learning the different environments is difficult. Here comes into play the power of JavaFX to write an application that will run on different platforms with simple tweaks, as we will see in this chapter.

Here, we are going to build a note-taking application for desktop and the Web as well. In this project, I'll show you how to create a complete JavaFX application from scratch using the JavaFX 8 SDK and the Java programming language using our previously installed developer tools (refer to Chapter 1, Getting Started with JavaFX 8).

I'll then show you how to create the application's two screen layouts and create the Java classes that control them. I'll create buttons that control navigation between different scenes, saves data, and then gets your UI controls updated dynamically...