The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX: Cross-Platform Mobile and Cloud Development

I think the design of the book by Apress and the expert Authors and contributing Authors should be a delight to Java Developers and Architects.

This book is a great introduction to working with JavaFX - especially after Java 11 and JavaFX 11, where JavaFX is no longer distributed as part of the Java SDK. I already had a decent knowledge of JavaFX before reading this book, but I learned a lot of new details I did not know. Alone the chapter on getting JavaFX 11 to run with Java 11 was worth the price of this book for me. I was kind of stuck with Java 10 and JavaFX 10 before this, but now I have JavaFX 13 running with Java 13.I am also now looking extra forward to Java 14 which contains jpackage - a tool for packaging Java (and thus JavaFX) applications as native applications for Windows, MacOS and Linux.In general, I got my knowledge of JavaFX CSS styling, animation, 3D and several other aspects and components expanded (Properties, AnchorPane, StackPane, Dialogs, Spinner etc.) . With this new knowledge I feel like going back and playing more with these features, to really get a feel for their power and their use cases.I also found the chapters on JavaFX on mobile devices interesting! Likewise the chapter on running JavaFX on Raspberri PI ! ... I almost feel I have to buy a Raspberry PI now - even if I don't what types of apps I would make for it (yet) :-DJavaFX now runs on Windows, Linux, MacOs, iOS, Android (+Chromebook) and Raspberry PI !We are already used to native apps on mobile devices - so why must all apps for the desktop be web apps?,There are plenty use cases where a native type desktop app can provide a higher grade user experience than a web app. JavaFX provides a pretty good platform for implementing such native type desktop apps, and making them cross-platform executable in the same process. These are indeed exciting times for JavaFX !

This is a good basic description that allowed me to get started building JavaFX front ends for applications. It's a more modern look and feel and, after some experimentation, I got the hang of it. I would have liked some deeper examples of some things, but nothing that was a deal breaker.

I will say the book has some ... interesting depth but unfortunately rather shallow depth in really pretty much every topic covered. Given the number and reputation of most the authors I’m pretty disappointed. I would have expected to see the standard charting system covered (at least shallowly) along with the event system. Additionally I think there’s a real need for a discussion on how to design and structure a large application which would lend itself to practical use.

It has everything I need.

I used to be a Java Swing developer, and I am looking to get myself up to date with JavaFX because I was told JavaFX supposedly the next generation of Java Swing. Therefore, I am looking at examples of creating UI components, Windowing application examples. And unfortunately, I don't find them in this book. I especially dislike chapter 4 JavaFX Control Deep Dive where it is almost like JavaFX documentation from Oracle, with no examples.

The book only showed the programmatic way of coding for JavaFX (widgets in Java code) rather than using the declarative way (use of XML files for screen formatting). The book covered all of the major components of JavaFX but missed out on providing "worked examples" that showed how to actually use it. For that you will have to search the web. Fortunately there are lots of good (and sometimes poor) examples on the web to guide you. I used the book to tell me what was possible but the web to show me how to do it.

Really clear breakdown of the JavaFX platformThe fundamentals covered are quite core to the platform. The code examples are simple yet at the same time highly instructive.If you've been wading around in stack overflow and want a better way than hacking and hard knocking your way through, and Oracle Docs are just not cutting it, this is a good book.I can see using it as a reference after I've gone through it

i dont know if it was me or the book is badly written, ive read two books on java already and ive been practicing for over a year, but i think the book makes simple concepts as hard as it can, i didnt like it at all. read 3 chapters and gave up