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JavaFX in Action
book

JavaFX in Action

by Simon Morris
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from JavaFX in Action

Chapter 1. Welcome to the future: introducing JavaFX

This chapter covers

  • Reviewing the history of the internet-based application
  • Asking what promise DSLs hold for UIs
  • Looking at JavaFX Script examples
  • Comparing JavaFX to its main rivals

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow once observed.

Language advocacy is a popular pastime with many programmers, but what many fail to realize is that programming languages are like tools: each is good at some things and next to useless at others. Java, inspired as it was by prior art like C and Smalltalk, sports a solid general-purpose syntax that gets the job done with the minimum of fuss in the majority of cases. Unfortunately, ...

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