Discover The Distinguished Features Of JavaFX

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Java has a strong presence in the field of development for web applications, more recently it has been employed by the Android platform. To the extent that native web and mobile applications have grown, the desktop applications have lost their presence, however, for some cases they are the right choice. With the emergence of JavaFX bringing several improvements over Swing or AWT in the Java platform, it can develop rich cross-platform desktop applications. 

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The Java programming language is widely used in the business field highlighting the programming of web applications which have been extended so much by their easy deployment to the clients. It is the development not too complicated with easy update, only need to be updated with the application in the server and its security for both the client, being the browser in the framework that limits the actions of the application, and for the server, when protecting accesses to the database, for example.

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However, web applications also have some limitations though they are improved with each new version of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and browsers as they evolve incorporating new APIs such as handling video, audio and even 3D acceleration themselves. Web applications are increasingly ‘rich’ but have not yet reached the capabilities of traditional desktop applications and in some cases may not be the chosen solution. Java first had AWT, then Swing and now JavaFX with notable improvements. The web applications also have the problem that if the server is not available or the network connection is lost, unless the application is ready like Google Docs, it will be impossible to use it. 

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The Distinguished Features Of JavaFX

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Since Java already has launched many version, the JavaFX has been launched with many significant and improved features. 

 

Java APIs

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Its APIs are in native code being compatible with other languages supported by JVM. 

 

FXML & Scene Builder

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It is a markup language that describes user interfaces. You can write directly or use the tool namely JavaFX Scene Builder to create them with a graphical interface. 

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Web View

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It allows to embed HTML pages into JavaFX applications and also gives support for JavaScript. 

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Built-in UI controls & CSS

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They provide many controls to build complete applications. The style of the controls can be modified with CSS. 

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Canvas API

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It is to draw directly on the screen. 

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Multitouch Support

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It is for multiple touch gestures depending on the abilities of the original platform. 

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Hardware Accelerated Graphics Pipeline

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By using GPU graphics, animations fluid are achieved on supported graphics cards. If the graphics card is unsupported, you can use Java2D software stack. 

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High-Performance Media Engine

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It supports playback of multimedia content with low latency based on GStreamer. 

With a great deal of significant features and improvements, we can see that JavaFX is here to stay for a longer period.