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Mastering JavaFX 10

By : Sergey Grinev
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Book Image

Mastering JavaFX 10

5 (1)
By: Sergey Grinev

Overview of this book

: JavaFX 10 is used to create media-rich client applications. This book takes you on a journey to use JavaFX 10 to build applications that display information in a high-performance, modern user interface featuring audio, video, graphics, and animation. Mastering JavaFX 10 begins by introducing you to the JavaFX API. You will understand the steps involved in setting up your development environment and build the necessary dependencies. This is followed by exploring how to work with the assets, modules, and APIs of JavaFX. This book is filled with practical examples to guide you through the major features of JavaFX 10. In addition to this, you will acquire a practical understanding of JavaFX custom animations, merging different application layers smoothly, and creating a user-friendly GUI with ease. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a complete, feature-rich Java graphical application using JavaFX.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Handmaking JAR files

The default Java application delivery mechanism is JAR files, which are ZIP archives with some extra information that makes them executable by Java. You can store class files (compiled Java files) and resources together in the JAR file.

Most of the IDEs you use will create a JAR file from your project, but in this section, we will review how it works under the hood.

Besides the direct download, there are also Java Web Start and browser plugin options, but they are being deprecated by Oracle so I'll leave them out of this book's scope.

Running the demo project

Let's consider the next project structure for the following examples:

I won't print all the source code here as the exact content...