Beginning JavaFX

by Lawrence PremKumar, Praveen Mohan

Overview

The open source JavaFX platform offers a Java-based approach to rich Internet application (RIA) development—an alternative to Adobe Flash/Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. At over 100 million downloads, JavaFX is poised to be a significant player.

Written by a JavaFX engineer and developer, this book is one of the first on the JavaFX platform to give you the following:

• The fundamentals of JavaFX scripting on desktop and mobile platforms
• Examples of RIAs using JavaFX Graphics
• Media and animation using JavaFX

See how JavaFX gives you dynamic Java effects in your RIA development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430271994
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/26/2010
Series:	Expert's Voice in Java Technology
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

A. Lawrence Prem Kumar has more than 5 years of experience in Java and J2EE. Since 2005, he's worked for Sun Microsystems. Presently, he is working on Java FX, focusing particularly on Java FX graphics.

Table of Contents

to RIA.- to JavaFX.- Data Types.- Operators and Expressions.- Functions.- Class Definitions.- Access Specifiers.- Inheritance.- Data Binding.- Sequences.- Triggers.- to JavaFX UI Elements.- to Animation.