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Essential JavaFX Prentice Hall, 2009; 360 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0137042791 Sun Microsystems Press [Buy from Amazon.com] [Go to the Essential JavaFX Download and Demos Page]

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JavaFX is a rich-client platform for building applications and expressive content for the desktop, browsers, and mobile devices. JavaFX applications are written with JavaFX Script, a simple, easy-to-learn declarative scripting language. Created to make it easy for web developers and GUI designers to collaborate, JavaFX Script also includes a powerful data-binding feature that allows graphical components to automatically change state when underlying data is changed.

Essential JavaFX clearly explains everything you need to know to write JavaFX scripts that leverage the language's unique features for creating rich content. Starting with the fundamentals, this practical tutorial introduces the JavaFX scene graph and covers the most effective uses of binding, event handlers, and animation, as well as how to use mixin inheritance and the newest UI components. Each chapter includes application examples fully tested with JavaFX 1.2.

Coverage includes

• Shapes, paths, and path elements
• Layout components and bounding rectangles
• JavaFX UI controls and JavaFX Swing components
• Custom skinnable components
• Images and ImageViewers
• Using Web services
• Targeting the mobile environment