Best Resources for Learning JavaFX?

Question

For those of us learning JavaFX, what are the best resources you've found so far?

(One of the difficulties in finding good JavaFX resources is that things written before July 2008 are often no longer valid because of changes made to beta version of the language)

I've found:

• James Weaver's JavaFX Blog
• JavaFX in Action by Manning Press
• OpenJFX on dev.java.net

What have you found that I might be missing?

Answer 1

I like JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications by the aforementioned James L. Weaver. Best of all, it is available as a Kindle edition!

Answer 2

JavaFX.com, a Sun site is at the JavaFX 1.0 level. It breaks out into Explore/See/Learn/Start web pages. Learn/Tutorials leads to the two items below, as does the Sun Developer Network's JavaFX Reference - Documentation, Tutorials, and APIs:

• JavaFX Reference - Documentation, Tutorials, and APIs
• Building GUI Applications With JavaFX

dzone.com reported that Java technology evangelist Sang Shin will begin teaching the 15-week free online course JavaFX Programming (With Passion!) on January 30, 2009. Free JavaFX Programming Online Training Course web page, about a screen or two down, lists a number of JavaFX resources. These resources include a number of videos.

April 28 2009: The JavaFX blog posted Go From Beginner to Intermediate in JavaFX that references tutorials, tips, and documentation.

May 21, 2009: Anthony Goubard's Weblog has an entry titled Java FX in One Day. Also at dzone with only difference code examples are colorized. This is not really a tutorial, but does provide a high level view of JavaFX. It prints to about four pages (excluding pages/items it references).

June 14, 2009: Wiki for Java FX:

• Netbeans wiki for JavaFX describes itself as a development center for JavaFX.
• Planet JFX Wiki describes itself as an open-source documentation wiki for the new JavaFX scripting platform.

November 16, 2009:

• JavaFX How-To's organized into categories that match the stages of JavaFX application development. It is suggested you already have completed some of the tutorials before looking here.

Answer 3

On Jan. 30th, 2009 Sang Shin starts a new online training course for JavaFx.

Answer 4

the Devoxx 2008: JavaFX 1.0 SDK Talk has been made available recently. it's an excellent introduction by some of the JavaFX gurus -- nice slides, simple demo code & great looking UIs (quite in contrast to the usual "ugly java duke" stuff you see in official sun tutorials ;-))

Answer 5

In addition to those above http://www.jfxstudio.org is a good place for little hacks & demos that gives you ideas of what is possible.

Answer 6

http://www.bestjavafxsite.com is very good aswell last time I check they were doing some updats on there site

Answer 7

A list of new docs on JavaFX 1.2 is at: http://javafx.com/learn/

For an exhaustive list of JavaFX docs click on reference hub .

Go to the see tab for new samples..

Answer 8

For game programming, I recommend this 6-step tutorial: http://remwebdevelopment.com/dev/c1-13/JAVAFX.html.