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Java FX 8 Essentials
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Java FX 8 Essentials

by Mohamed Taman
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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JavaFX on the Web

In this section, we will learn about JavaFX on the Web and how to deploy our note-taking application there.

WebEngine

JavaFX provides a non-GUI component capable of loading HTML5 content, called the WebEngine API (javafx.scene.web.WebEngine). This API is basically an object instance of the WebEngine class to be used to load a file containing HTML5 content. The HTML5 file could be loaded from a local file system, a web server, or from inside a JAR file.

When a file is loaded using a web engine object, a background thread is used to load the file content to not block the JavaFX application thread.

The following are two WebEngine methods for loading HTML5 content:

  • load(String URL)
  • loadContent(String HTML)

WebView

JavaFX provides a GUI ...

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