4.1 JavaFX Application Structure
Over the years, Java has provided several incarnations of graphics systems. The first was Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), which was subsequently replaced by Swing. Java’s current system for building graphics applications is JavaFX. JavaFX makes it possible to create rich user interfaces with animations and special effects. In this chapter, we concentrate on JavaFX’s features for creating graphical output for applications.
All the classes we need to build a JavaFX application are downloaded with the Java SE SDK. Oracle provides tutorial information on JavaFX at http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/jfxpub-get_started.htm and documentation for all the JavaFX classes is included with the Java version 9 documentation. ...
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