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Java Fundamentals

Week 4, lesson 1 – Introducing JavaFX


Wim Wiltenburg & Mark de Haan
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Contents
• What is JavaFX?
• Installing JavaFX
• Adding JavaFX to a project
• A simple starting application
• Running the application

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What is JavaFX?
JavaFX is a cross platform Java Graphical User Interface library.
The first GUI library was AWT, which later evolved into Swing.
JavaFX has WebView, which is an embedded browser component, that
allows you to use HTML5 features, like Canvas, JavaScript and CSS
Since JDK 11 JavaFX is no longer part of the JDK, but has to be included as
a separate library, which is maintained by the OpenJFX project

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Application architecture
JavaFX is a flexible framework, enabling patterns such as MVC or MVVM to
be used.
This means we have to think about our code architecture. A simple approach
to get started could look like this:

In this lecture, we will focus on how a View and Controller can work together.
Creating a project

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Running the application
After generating the project, you should be able to run it. A simple HelloWorld
example will appear.

So how does this work?


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Project setup
• The view we are seeing, is defined in hello-view.fxml, which you can find
in the resources folder.
• In the view code, you can see it is linked to a controller class called
HelloController, which is a separate .java file that is (unsurprisingly)
called HelloController.java.
• And finally, the application startup code is defined in
HelloApplication.java.
This startup code calls the FXMLLoader class (part of JavaFX) to load in the
view and display it to the user.

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Important note
It’s important to know that we are not required to use FXML to use JavaFX.
It is perfectly possible to write the entire UI in Java.
However, using FXML enables us to use a tool called SceneBuilder for UI
creation, and have a good separation of logic and view by default.

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