JavaFX SDK Runtime Tutorial

The JavaFX Preview SDK is a developer toolkit that contains command-line utilities to compile and launch JavaFX programs, packages of JavaFX API, code samples, and documentation. JavaFX Runtime is an integral component of JavaFX Preview SDK that provides basic functionality to develop UI applications. It is comprised of an application infrastructure, wrappers of Swing components, layout, and event classes, and a powerful toolkit to present visual objects in graphical scene including text, effects, transformations, painting, geometry, images, and media.

This tutorial presents a set of practical lessons which are targeted at content developers that build Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using JavaFX Preview SDK. The document describes the JavaFX Runtime features within the scope of the following use cases:

Creating GUIs Using JavaFX Script

Provides a high-level description of the functionality for creating GUIs and offers practical examples

Presenting Visual Objects

Explains how to present UI objects in a graphical scene applying the Scene Graph functionality provided by the JavaFX libraries

Handling Media

Exposes details on the Java Media Component architecture and explains how to incorporate media in RIAs

Appendix: API Reference

Provides description of classes and packages used in the tutorial demos

The tutorial contains code samples and demos. You can find the complete code of all examples in the Source Files directory in each lesson. To run and compile source files follow the instructions provided in JavaFX SDK README.

Before using this tutorial consider reading the JavaFX Script Language Reference.