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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

Chapter 6. Working with Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Saving data locally with the Storage API

  • Accessing remote data with HttpRequest

  • Downloading images with HttpRequest

  • Posting data to remote servers with HttpRequest

  • Uploading files to servers with HttpRequest

  • Building RESTful clients with the PullParser API

  • Using the feed API to create RSS/Atom clients

  • Visualizing data with the JavaFX Chart API

Introduction

All popular rich client platforms provide inherent support for local and remote data retrieval and persistence. JavaFX is no different. This chapter explores the tools that are available in JavaFX to access and manipulate data locally or remotely, and how to perform data visualization using the newly added JavaFX chart components.

Storage API

Part of the recent additions to version 1.2 of the SDK includes the Storage API. This API is designed to provide secure and uniform data storage and retrieval services for client applications working in offline mode. This chapter...