Beyond The Buzz: Pluggable JavaFX Corporate Applications

JavaFX: Beyond the Buzz
Pluggable JavaFX Corporate Applications

JavaFX provides a user experience comparable to
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. But what's the
relevance of JavaFX in the corporate world?

In this session, the business-oriented features of
JavaFX are highlighted, such as the WebView and
animated charting components, in the context of the
NetBeans Platform, a popular basis for creating
pluggable Java desktop applications.

Bio: Geertjan Wielenga
 Job
 …
 2004: NetBeans Team, Sun Microsystems
 2010: NetBeans Team, Oracle
 Blog
 http://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan
 Twitter
 @geertjanw
 E-Mail
 geertjan.wielenga@oracle.com

Agenda
 NetBeans

 JavaFX

 The Buzz

 Beyond the Buzz

 Demos

NetBeans History
 1996: Student project in Czechoslovakia

 2000: Sun’s
open
source
IDE

 2010: Oracle’s
open
source
IDE

Beyond The Buzz: Pluggable JavaFX Corporate Applications

NetBeans Key Features
 Oracle’s official IDE for the Java Platform

 Provider of tools for latest Java technologies

 Java-centric, but also PHP, C/C++, and others

 Modular, pluggable, free, open source

 Active community around the world

 Hundreds of tutorials and screencasts

JavaFX: The Buzz (under Sun)
 Originally a Sun project vs.
Adobe Flash & Microsoft Silverlight

 Movement, transitions, animations, and media

 Design in PhotoShop, export to JavaFX

 JavaFX Script

 “All the screens of your life”

 No integration with existing technologies

JavaFX: The Buzz (under Oracle)
 Farewell JavaFX Script

 Movement, transitions, animations, and media

 JavaFX as Java Libraries

 Integration with existing technologies

 Many native libraries needed

 Focused on the Java desktop

“User expectations,
even for captive-
audience corporate
applications, are
being set by the user
experience of mobile
applications.”

JavaFX: The Buzz
 Let’s see some demos…

JavaFX: Beyond The Buzz
 What are some things all large desktop
applications tend to have..?

 Menubar, toolbar, keyboard shortcuts

 Undockable windows

 Lifecycle management, e.g., persistence
across restarts

 Pluggability, i.e., install new features at
rumtime, e.g., FireFox

JavaFX: Beyond The Buzz
 JavaFX does not provide any of these

 JavaFX is a UI toolkit, i.e., a component
framework

 In addition, JavaFX has special effects,
animations, transitions, etc

 But no application framework

What You Get (For Free)
 Predefined generic features.

 Code generators for custom features.

 Less boilerplate code, less cycles.

 Consistency of user interface.

 Installers & update mechanism.

 Modularity & loose coupling.

Everything is Pluggable
 Menubar

 Toolbar

 Window System / Docking Framework

 Options Window

 JavaHelp

 Custom Features

Used in Production?
 Aerospace

 Defense

 Financials & Banks

 Bioinformatics & Healthcare

 Retail

 Software Development

Demos
 Music application
 Plugin providing JavaFX WebView

 Data Analyzer
 Plugin providing JavaFX pie chart
 Plugin providing JavaFX bar chart
 Plugin providing JavaFX many other charts

Summary
 NetBeans Platform:

 Framework simplifying development of
modular, scalable JavaFX and Swing apps

 Free & open source

 Stable & very extensive

 Used widely & internationally

 Business framework for JavaFX

Courses
 Basic course
 Covers all basic NetBeans APIssimplifying
 Focused on hands-on work & coding
 Free for JUGs, universities, etc.

 Porting workshop
 Brief overview of NetBeans APIs
 Step by step migration of existing app
 End of workshop, usable prototype ready

Resources
 http://wiki.netbeans.org/
NetBeansDeveloperFAQ

 http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/
nbm-porting-basic.html

 http://edu.netbeans.org/courses/
nbm-platform-certified-training

 dev@platform.netbeans.org

 http://platform.netbeans.org

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