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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

You're reading from   Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications Master advanced Java features and implement them to build amazing projects

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Product type Course
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832823
Length 910 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Jason Lee Jason Lee
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Peter Verhas Peter Verhas
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Preface
1. The Java 9 Landscape FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering Java 9 3. Java 9 Language Enhancements 4. Building Modular Applications with Java 9 5. Migrating Applications to Java 9 6. Experimenting with the Java Shell 7. Leveraging the New Default G1 Garbage Collector 8. Microbenchmarking Applications with JMH 9. Making Use of the ProcessHandle API 10. Fine-Grained Stack Tracing 11. New Tools and Tool Enhancements 12. Concurrency and Reactive Programming 13. Security Enhancements 14. Command Line Flags 15. Best Practices In Java 9 16. Future Directions 17. Introduction 18. Managing Processes in Java 19. Duplicate File Finder 20. Date Calculator 21. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator 22. Sunago - An Android Port 23. Email and Spam Management with MailFilter 24. Photo Management with PhotoBeans 25. Taking Notes with Monumentum 26. Serverless Java 27. DeskDroid - A Desktop Client for Your Android Phone 28. What is Next? 1. Bibliography
Index

Defining the user interface


When building the user interface for a JavaFX application, you can do it in one of two ways: code or markup. To keep our code smaller and more readable, we'll build the user interface using FXML--the XML-based language created specifically for JavaFX to express user interfaces. This presents us with another binary choice--do we write the XML by hand, or do we use a graphical tool? Again, the choice is a simple one--we'll use a tool, Scene Builder, which is a WYSIWYG tool originally developed by Oracle and now maintained and supported by Gluon. We will, however, also be looking at the XML source so that we can understand what's being done, so if you don't like using a GUI tool, you won't be left out.

Installing and using Scene Builder is, as you would expect, pretty straightforward. It can be downloaded from http://gluonhq.com/labs/scene-builder/. Once installed, you need to tell NetBeans where to find it, which can be done in the Settings window, under Java | JavaFX...

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