Rich-Client

Creating and Packaging a Game in Java FX 2.2

It’s been a long way for Java FX from the days of the F3 project the current release 2.2. Today there are many options how to create a Java FX application .. you may be using Java, Scala, Groovy or Visage, you may create your application in a programmatic way using the comfortable integrated builders or you may create your views using XML layouts and easy data-bindings with a few annotations. ...

Creating Rich Clients with Apache Pivot

Apache Pivot is a modern framework to create rich clients as desktop applications or to run in a web browser. It offers nice GUI elements, supports XML/WTKX templates, data bindings, JVM scripting languages and much more. In the following short examples I’m going to create a desktop application to open a file browser, select a file and output the selected file’s name, first using a programmatic approach to create the user interface, and afterwards using XML/WTKX templates. ...