| By Jonas Jacobi |
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| August 27, 2012 05:47 PM EDT |
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As part of my prep for the talk we give at JavaOne 2012, I built a WebSocket app using JavaFX 2.2 front-end with NetBeans 7.2 and the brand new JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0.
The tools were a pleasant surprise, they were pretty straight-forward to use. Most of the Oracle tutorials were helpful too, although I couldn’t find signs of an active and extensive JavaFX developer community out there.
The app I wanted to build consumes the same data source as the lightning fast Kaazing portfolio demo.
This video demonstrates what it looks like in the development environment, as well as running, side-by-side with the aforementioned JavaScript implementation of the Kaazing portfolio demo.
Step 1 – Creating a JavaFX App
First, I created a new project: JavaFX > JavaFX FXML Application.
Step 2 – Defining the UI
Then, using the new JavaFX Scene Builder, I created the grid layout I wanted to render. The JavaFX Scene Builder can be invoked by double-clicking on your fxml file in NetBeans. If you want to edit the XML in NetBeans directly, there’s a context menu that allows you to do so.
On the next page you'll find the source for my Sample.fxml file.
Jonas Jacobi is President and CEO of Kaazing, a privately held company that delivers next generation high-performance Web communication platform providing distribution of live data to the online financial trading, betting, gaming, auction, social, and media industries.
Before co-founding Kaazing Jonas served as VP of Product Management for Brane Corporation, a leader in platform and technology independent solutions for any type of application software technology, automating the entire application development process required to maximize the business value of software.
Prior to Brane Corporation, he spent over 8 years at Oracle where he served as a Java EE and open source Evangelist, and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle Application Server division.
Jonas is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has written numerous articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, JavaPro, AjaxWorld, and Oracle Magazine. Mr. Jacobi is co-author of the best-selling book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress).
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