JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications (Paperback)

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Product Description

JavaFX Script makes it easy for developers to quickly develop high-quality UI-intensive applications very quickly. As JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications demonstrates, developers can develop Rich Internet Applications and rich client-side user interfaces quickly and easily with this potential replacement for Ajax and perhaps even ActionScript and other scripting found in Flash. This firstPress book on JavaFX Scriptcovers the following topics:

• The fundamentals of the JavaFX suite of technologies and the foundations of JavaFX Script and available tools
• How to create a Wordsearch application
• How to augment and enhance the Wordsearch application after learning more advanced JavaFX Script features such as classes, objects, UI components, and constructs.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the JavaFX family and JavaFX Script and its relationship to the Java/Java SE 6 platform.
• Set up a JavaFX Script development and execution environment culminating in a Hello JFX application.
• Create a Wordsearch application and explore important JavaFX Script concepts by doing so.
• Survey the JavaFX UI Components including the commonly used ones that go into further building and enhancement of the Wordsearch application frame and menu structure.
• Use more advanced JavaFX Script language constructs for extending the Wordsearch application.
• Build JavaFX classes and objects, build the data model for the WordSearch application, and run the data model with a tester program.
• Develop the view for the Wordsearch application using a data model such as bind as well as drawing on a canvas.
• Explore more JavaFX Script concepts and possible IDE tie-ins to NetBeans, Eclipse, etc.

Who is this book for?

This book is for content developers and application developers with some programming experience who want to create rich internet applications.

About the Author

James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Senior VP of Technology at Veriana Networks, Inc. He writes books, speaks for groups and conferences, and provides training and consulting services on the subjects of Java and JavaFX. He also posts regularly to his blog at www.JavaFXpert.com whose stated purpose is to help the reader learn JavaFX Script and other JavaFX technologies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Apress (October 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599454
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599457
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #571,658 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terribly out of date., December 15, 2008

By	J. Smith (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book because it was the the only thing available for JavaFX at the time. I tried to work through some of the examples, but was disappointed to find out the even the HelloWorld program would not compile. After going a bit deeper, I realized that major keywords have changed, and entire packages have been moved or rewritten or dropped since the book was written. The book also moves very quickly into a fairly complex example program that takes several chapters to complete, and translating between the old syntax and the new syntax doesn't look very easy. Don't get me wrong - this was a well written book at the time. However, due to the number of changes in the JavaFX language, it is at best useless and at worst misleading.

I am a person who likes to learn a new technology by reading a good book, where someone has taken the time to distill the essentials into as compact a form as possible. I can tell you after reading through this book, either wait for the next edition or for one of the other pending books that is based on the 1.0 release of the language. You will find that you are much better off trying to work this technology out from the more correct information that is published on the internet rather than from this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wow, horrible that it's on the market. Syntax is not valid!, May 24, 2009

By	S. Anderson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is really out of date. It appears the Author went on the original spec of JavaFX and they changed it somewhere after release. The book is worthless if you are trying to follow the examples with the new updated syntax. I don't think you can blame the author on this, but it really should be pulled from publication. Buyer beware on this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Obsolete, April 1, 2009

By	Alexis Dufrenoy - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Caution! This book is obsolete since March 2008, after Sun has modified the syntax of JavaFX Script.