The document discusses the relevance of JavaFX in corporate applications, highlighting its user experience comparable to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. It emphasizes the features of JavaFX within the NetBeans platform, focusing on its modular capabilities and integration with existing technologies while addressing the expectations set by modern mobile applications. Additionally, it provides insights into JavaFX's limitations as a UI toolkit and outlines resources for learning and development related to NetBeans and JavaFX.

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?