Learn JavaFX 8: Building User Experience and Interfaces with Java 8

Introduction

Java had the support for developing GUI applications since its version 1.0 using the AWT (Abstract Windows Toolkit). Later AWT was replaced by Swing, which gave a little better user experience, but still lacked the modern-looking widgets and the support for developer’s productivity. Both AWT and Swing lacked the first-class support for data binding, efficient GUI rendering engines, easy-to-use 2D and 3D libraries for developers, and style sheet support. JavaFX was first released in 2008 as the tool to use for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs); it used a statically typed declarative language called JavaFX Script, which did not attract a lot of attention from Java developers. JavaFX 2.0, released in 2011, caught the Java ...