Pro JavaFXT Platform: Script, Desktop and Mobile RIA with JavaT Technology / Edition 1

by James Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson

Overview

The JavaFX™ technology and platform is essentially Sun's response to Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight. JavaFX lets developers play with the open-source scripting, desktop, and mobile APIs offered to create dynamic, seamless visual user interfaces (UIs) that are “Flash–like” and beyond…

Learn from bestselling JavaFX author Jim Weaver and expert JavaFX developers Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, and Dean Iverson to discover the JavaFX technology and platform that enables developers and designers to create rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can run across diverse devices. Covering the JavaFX Script language, JavaFX Mobile, and development tools, Pro JavaFX™ Platform: Script, Desktop and Mobile RIA with Java™ Technology is the first book that fully provides JavaFX version 1.2 code examples that cover virtually every language and API feature.

This book contains the following:

• Tutorials that teach JavaFX 1.2 to an application developer or graphics designer who has had no exposure to JavaFX. These tutorials will be exhaustive, covering virtually every facet of JavaFX Script and are fully updated for the JavaFX 1.2 release.
• Reference materials on JavaFX 1.2 that augment what is available from the JavaFX 1.2 Language Reference and API documentation.
• How to take JavaFX 1.2 to other platforms besides the desktop, such as mobile.

Visit projavafx.com for more resources and information from the authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430218753
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/21/2009
Series:	Expert's Voice in Java Technology
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jim Weaver is an author, speaker, teacher, and developer in rich Internet application technologies such as JavaFX, and may be contacted at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

1 Getting a Jump Start in JavaFX. 2 Understanding “The Way of JavaFX”. 3 Defining classes in JavaFX. 4 Taking a closer look at the JavaFX language. 5. Advanced features of the JavaFX language. 6 Creating a node-centric user interface. 7 Understanding JavaFX profiles. 8 Communicating with back-end services. 9 Animation and timelines. 10 Tools available for developing JavaFX programs. 11 Code examples that illustrate JavaFX language and API features that weren't covered thoroughly in the previous chapters.