javafx-links.md

Some (hopefully) useful links related to JavaFX development.

The biggest list I've seen is at AwesomeJavaFX - seriously, huge list.

JavaFX Documentation

• Learning JavaFX? Great starting place
• The documentation above is built with AsciiDocs, a great tool.
• Here's a JavaFX Asciidoc Editor.

Build Example

• Post showing an example of building Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android from a single app
  • Uses GitHub Actions for all the build steps, VERY cool.
• BadAss JLink Plugin - if you want to build a JavaFX app with Gradle, here's a plugin to help manage jlink & jpackage.

JavaFX Tutorials

• http://tutorials.jenkov.com/javafx/index.html
• FXTutorials
• JavaFX Examples Tons of great JavaFX examples, ready to go
• JabRef Developer Notes Notes on developing with JavaFX from JabRef, a pretty large JavaFX app with excellent documentation.
• Simple JavaFX RSS Reader example

JavaFX Scene Tools

• Scenic View - attach to a running JavaFX, debug, and play with values. Reminds me of a browser debug inspector.

Test Automation

• https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX

Grammar Checking

• https://dev.languagetool.org/java-api
• https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/plugins/grazie

Automated Application Updates

• https://changenode.com/ (My project, so biased! Complete solution, including both client & server, crash reporting, analytics)
• https://github.com/update4j/update4j (last update 2020)
• https://github.com/edvin/fxlauncher (last update 2019, author contributed to update4j, above)
• https://github.com/bitgamma/updatefx (last update 2017)
• https://github.com/vinumeris/updatefx (out of date, last update 2015)
• https://github.com/threerings/getdown (needs investigation)

Automated Crash Reporting

• https://changenode.com/ (My project, so biased! Complete solution, including both client & server, crash reporting, analytics)
• Sentry
  • https://sentry.io/for/java/
  • https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/java/enriching-events/identify-user/
• https://www.bugsnag.com/platforms/java
• Raygun
  • https://raygun.com/documentation/language-guides/java/crash-reporting/installation/
  • https://github.com/MindscapeHQ/raygun4java
  • https://github.com/vinumeris/crashfx (out of date, last update 2015)

Styling

• JavaFX CSS Reference

Printing

• StackOverflow on How To Print

Desktop Integration

• Desktop Package Summary
• Built-in Java Taskbar API
• Built-in Java Desktop API
• FXTrayIcon wrapper for system tray icons that hides all the messy integration with the old AWT/Swing APIs.
• Light/Dark OS level theme detection jSystemThemeDetector. Includes an example of how to easily integrate this with JavaFX. Another version that just uses OS native command-line stuff
• Taskbar progress for Windows, etc from JavaFX

Miscellaneous JavaFX Examples

• https://github.com/jjenkov/javafx-examples
• Giant List of JavaFX Resources
• Excel Import
• Eden Coding has a lot of info for JavaFX stuff

Controls

• JFreeChart - Excellent chart library, includes SVG, PNG, PDF export.
  • JFreeChart-FX to simplify JavaFX integration
• https://github.com/dlsc-software-consulting-gmbh/GemsFX - Time picker, read-only rich text
• Scientific charts
• Large Preferences Dialog - Very robust implementation of an IntelliJ-style preferences dialog.

Perf Info

• Includes lots of testing, build UI on background thread

Reboot

https://dzone.com/articles/programmatically-restart-java

Embedded Databases

• Relational: H2, Derby, Hdb.
• Doc store (Mongo-esque) https://github.com/nitrite/nitrite-java

Cool JavaFX Apps

• 3D Graphing Calculator

Signing and Notarizing

• Technically for JetBrains Compose but the steps are the same, as Compose uses jpackage underneath the covers.