Building RIA with JavaFX

Max KatzExadel

About MeSenior Systems EngineerRIA strategy, development, training http://mkblog.exadel.comPractical RichFaces (Apress)

ExadelRIA services and products companyHeadquarters in San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaLarge development and services office in Eastern Europe, in Belarus, Minsk

Red Hat/JBoss – ExadelRed Hat's Enterprise Web 2.0 Center for Excellence

ProductsJBoss RichFaces (Ajax4jsf) JBoss Developer Studio (Exadel Studio)Fiji – JSF with Flex/JavaFX integrationFlamingo – Flex/JavaFX with Seam/SpringE7 – process-rich (BPM) applications

The PlanIntroduce JavaFXRun examplesTell you what else we are doing

Why JavaFX, Why Not Java?Applets and Swing are good, but problems exist• No declarative way to define UI• Installation• Download size• Update• Application startup time

What is JavaFX?Tool for building RIA applications across all devices

– Web– Mobile– Desktop

We will concentrate on Web and enterprise

JavaFX Script Expression language Declarative and procedural Integrates with Java – use any Java class

DeliveryAppletJava Web StartStand-alone

Applets 2.0 (Reborn)!New, lightweight (consumer) JRETransparent download, updateGoal is about 2Mb

Java vs JavaFX

HelloWorld in Swing

Hello World in JavaFX

Development ToolsNetBeans support is decentEclipse – very primitive plug-in available

Introducing Exadel's New JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse

Exadel's JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse

FeaturesJavaFX perspectiveCreate project wizardLaunch applicationBuild, error marker

Coming upBetter editor, code assistLaunch as appletSetting, configuration wizardsVisual editor

Examples.

Flamingo: RIA FrameworkConnect JavaFX with Seam/SpringConnect Flex with Seam/Spring

Flamingo JavaFX FeaturesCall Seam components, Spring beansSeam conversation supportEntity Validation (Hibernate)

Fiji: JSF RIA FrameworkIntegrate JSF with Flex or JavaFX

Flex

JSF page JSF page

Flex JavaFX

Fiji: JSF with Flex/JavaFXReady charting componentsIntegrate any other Flex/JavaFX componentsBind Flex/JavaFX components to JSF beansUses the familiar JSF component approach

AJAX vs. Flash vs. JavaFX

Good•Any browser•Accepted•Tools

Not Good•Browsers testing•Limit to richness•Charts, graphs

Good•Rich content•Works same everywhere

Not Good•Flash playerinstall•Acceptance•“flashy”

Good•Rich content•Works same everywhere

Not Good•JRE•Acceptance•New

E7Build process-rich applicationsBridge the gap between Business Process

Management (BPM) and Java

BMP+Services

Come talk to me about:JSF/RichFaces, training (1-2 days)JavaFX, JavaFX plug-inYour RIA plansWe can help with development, after all, we created

the products

RichFaces workshopApril 3, all day Learn RichFaces in 1 day!

Thank You. Questions?mkatz@exadel.comhttp://mkblog.exadel.com