Lesson 1: What is JavaFX ?
Well, dear reader this is one of those many times where I don’t know what your background is, how much time you have spent working with the Java language or how much detail you already know about the origins of Java. So, I will go back to the start and give a quick gloss-over-rundown of the past, but forgive me if you’ve heard this part before. Early History In the beginning, there was “awt” or Java’s abstract window toolkit which was used for both Applets (embedded Java programs on webpages) and Applications. With this you could create buttons, checkboxes, text fields, etc and make a program with a basic user interface. Then came Swing, Java’s updated gui (graphical user interface) library with more tools and an updated look and feel. Swing is still very popular and widely used, but now that Java has Oracle at the helm we are once again seeing Java move into a new and exciting direction. Enter JavaFx I was surprised to learn that JavaFx has been around for a long time. Even