Developing a Professional JavaFX Desktop Application: Challenges and Solutions

Engineers on the JavaFX Scene Builder team faced some new challenges while developing their product. Now that the tool has been released, it seems to be the best time to share the experience acquired during the development of one of the first products written fully in JavaFX. This presentation contains some tips, practices, and guidelines for productizing JavaFX applications. Topics covered: • Design patterns for layout, controls, and CSS • Designing a document-oriented application • Coping with native platform look-and-feel • Leveraging Java internationalization • Finding out the right tooling, from the NetBeans editor and profiler to JavaFX Scene Builder itself • Testing with JUnit and JemmyFX • Packaging a desktop application Copyright © 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle disclaims any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of this recording, demonstration, and/or written materials (the "Materials"). The Materials are provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.