JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

This book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate on known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better understand how and why each step was undertaken, and many links to online references and other related sections in the book that supplement the subject in question. The book is written so that you can work through the recipes in order or go straight to the recipes that interest you; where a recipe depends on other recipes they are clearly referenced. If you are a Java developer, Rich Internet Application content developer, or graphic designer who wants to build RIAs featuring animations, videos, and other feature-rich content, this book is for you. Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, and JavaFX components is not essential, but will help you exploit this book to your advantage.

Vladimir Vivien

Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current experience include development in Java and .Net for industries including publishing, financial, and healthcare. He has worked with a varied number of technologies including user-facing GUI frontends and backend middleware. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open source projects. He is the author of JmxBuilder a Groovy DSL for instrumentation and management that is now part of the core Groovy project. Vladimir has presented some of his ideas at JavaOne, NFJS Software Symposium, and local Java user groups.

Besides JavaFX, he has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Scala, BugLabs, Arduino, SunSPOT, and any other interesting projects running on the JVM.