Java Programming for Windows Applications

This chapter introduces Java graphical user interface (GUI) using the Java Swing toolkit for windows applications and then introduces Java GUI development using the latest JavaFX toolkit. It provides resources including several interesting JavaFX tutorials and information about JavaFX deployment. Java Swing is a GUI widget toolkit that was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Java AWT widget toolkit. JavaFX is a Java library designed for developing sophisticated Java GUI applications. There are many good JavaFX tutorials on the Internet. The official JavaFX tutorial from Oracle is comprehensive and includes all the JavaFX documentation. The simplest way to deploy a JavaFX application is as a stand‐alone executable JAR file. Besides this, JavaFX applications can be deployed to run in a browser, to run on the Web, and as self‐contained applications.