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About the Author..................................................................................................... x About the Technical Reviewer ............................................................................... xi Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ xii Introduction ......................................................................................................... xiii Chapter 1: JavaFX Fundamentals ...........................................................................1 Chapter 2: Graphics with JavaFX..........................................................................69 Chapter 3: Media with JavaFX............................................................................111 Chapter 4: JavaFX on the Web ............................................................................141 Index ...................................................................................................................175
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Introduction
JavaFX 2.0 is Java’s next generation graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit for developers to rapidly build rich cross-platform applications. Built from the ground up, JavaFX takes advantage of modern GPUs through hardware-accelerated graphics while providing well-designed programming interfaces enabling developers to combine graphics, animation, and UI controls. The new JavaFX 2.0 is a pure Java language application programming interface (API). The key architectural strategies provided by JavaFX 2.0 API are the reuse of existing Java libraries and the bridging of communication between other languages that run on the JVM (Visage, Jython,