Preface

This book, as its title (JavaFX 8 Essentials) suggests, is a pragmatic book that provides you with a robust set of essential skills that will guide you to become confident enough to rapidly build high-performance JavaFX 8 client applications. These applications take advantage of modern GPUs through hardware-accelerated graphics while delivering a compelling, complex, and fancy rich-client GUI for your customer, which will impress them quite a bit.

Learning the JavaFX 8 essentials is the first step to plunging into creating applications that most importantly run on any platform, from the desktop, Web, mobile, tablets, to embedded devices such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and multi-core development. Following Java's Write once, run anywhere ...

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