Frontend Development with JavaFX and Kotlin: Build State-of-the-Art Kotlin GUI Applications

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P. SpäthFrontend Development with JavaFX and Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9717-9_1

1. Getting Started

Peter Späth¹  

(1)

Leipzig, Germany

 

In this chapter, we give a brief introduction to using JavaFX and Kotlin together, and we create “Hello World”–style projects for the command line, for Eclipse, and for IntelliJ IDEA.

Introduction

JavaFX is the dedicated fat client (desktop application) GUI toolkit for current Java releases. It is the replacement and successor of the venerable Java Swing technology. This switch happened around 2010, and since then JavaFX has been constantly improved and extended. With JREs up to version JDK 9, JavaFX was part ...