Welcome to the JavaFX Resource Center. JavaFX, a competitor to Adobe Flex/Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, is a platform for building RIAs (Rich Internet Applications)—including rich GUIs, audio, video and animations—for the Web. It can also be used for creating interactive content and applications for mobile devices and set-top boxes. JavaFX is comprised of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile. The JavaFX Script Programming Language uses the Java2D Swing GUI components for creating GUIs. JavaFX Mobile is a pre-integrated software system for designing rich content and network-based services for mobile devices. Start your search here for JavaFX resources, including demos, sample code, articles, tutorials, downloads, forums, FAQs and more. In the JavaFX Resource Center you’ll find links to:
- The tutorial, “Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language (for Swing Programmers)," from Sun Microsystems.
- The history of JavaFX, by Christopher Oliver, the developer of JavaFX.
- The article, “Sun Radically Simplifies Content Authoring—Previews JavaFX Script.”
- Mike Hendrickson’s blog entry for O’Reilly Media that discusses JavaFX, an extension to the Java platform for building rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the web, desktop and mobile devices.
- The JavaFX Technology site where you’ll learn about JavaFX, the OpenJFX Project, JavaFX Script, JavaFX Mobile and more.
- Demos of JavaFXPad (a tool for creating graphical elements using JavaFX Script) and JavaFX StudioMoto (a recreation of the Motorola StudioMoto website—a free online music studio where users can create their own multimedia).
- The JavaFX site where you’ll learn more about JavaFX Script and JavaFX and how they can be used to develop rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- A complete listing of JavaFX related information on the Sun Microsystems’s site.
- JavaFX sessions from the JavaOne 2007 Conference.
- JavaFX source code examples including a clock, an image viewer, a pretty box widget, and Netbeans-style Frames widget.
- Project OpenJFX site and OpenJFX source code.
- The JavaFX Script and the OpenJFX discussion forums.
- The tutorial, “JavaFX Canvas Tutorial,” from Sun Microsystems.
- A series of demos including the JavaFX Script JavaFXPad and the JavaFX Script Studiomoto.
- The blog of Christopher Oliver, developer of JavaFX.
- The Planet JFX wiki that includes tips, tricks, sample code and tutorials.
- Downloads, wikis, demos, tutorials, forums, mailing lists, and reference materials.
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