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.

1. JavaFX: Beyond the Buzz
Pluggable JavaFX Corporate Applications

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Agenda
 NetBeans
 JavaFX
 The Buzz
 Beyond the Buzz
 Demos

5. NetBeans History
 1996: Student project in Czechoslovakia
 2000: Sun’s
open
source
IDE
 2010: Oracle’s
open
source
IDE

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. JavaFX: Beyond The Buzz

15. 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.

16. Everything is Pluggable
 Menubar
 Toolbar
 Window System / Docking Framework
 Options Window
 JavaHelp
 Custom Features

17. Used in Production?
 Aerospace
 Defense
 Financials & Banks
 Bioinformatics & Healthcare
 Retail
 Software Development

32. 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

33. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. Questions?