Preface

JavaFX is a set of libraries added to Java in order to provide capabilities to build a modern UI. It was added to Java a few releases ago, as old libraries—Swing and AWT—proved to be outdated and too burdened with backward compatibility issues.

JavaFX was designed and developed from scratch to provide Java developers with the capabilities to build modern, rich UI applications with a large set of shapes, controls, and charts. It was designed with performance in mind, is capable of using graphics cards, and is based on the new graphical engine.

In this book, we will study many aspects of JavaFX and go through a large set of examples based on these topics.