JavaFX Essentials

Creating "Hello World" JavaFX-style applications

The best way to show you what it is like to create and build a JavaFX application would be with a Hello World application.

In this section, you will be using the NetBeans IDE we just installed to develop, compile, and run a JavaFX-based Hello World application.

Using the Netbeans IDE

To quickly get started with creating, coding, compiling, and running a simple JavaFX-style Hello World application using the NetBeans IDE, follow the steps outlined in this section:

1. From the File menu, choose New Project.
2. From JavaFX application category, choose JavaFX Application. Click on Next.
3. Name the project HelloJavaFX. Optionally, you can define the package structure for application classes. Then click on Finish as ...