JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to create rich Internet applications with many exciting features

• Easily develop feature-rich internet applications to interact with the user using various built-in components of JavaFX
• Make your application visually appealing by using various JavaFX classes—ListView, Slider, ProgressBar—to display your content and enhance its look with the help of CSS styling
• Enhance the look and feel of your application by embedding multimedia components such as images, audio, and video
• Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

• Dive into the JavaFX scripting language fundamentals by creating and declaring classes, functions, trigger variables, and more
• Create complex graphical components with simplified declarative constructs and arrange these building blocks to create applications in JavaFX
• Effortlessly make your objects visually appealing by applying cool effects
• Quickly build an application that provides a high level of interactivity by using JavaFX GUI controls
• Seamlessly play audio and video in several formats using built-in media components
• Access data and manipulate data locally or remotely using tools that are available in JavaFX
• Achieve data visualization using the newly added feature—JavaFX chart components
• Make your applications available for easy access and use by implementing deployment options such as Java WebStart and applets available in JavaFX
• Take advantage of runtime contexts to interact with the executing environment with integration tips and tricks

If you are a Java developer, Rich Internet Application content developer, or graphic designer who wants to build RIAs featuring animations, videos, and other feature-rich content, this book is for you. Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, and JavaFX components is not essential, but will help you exploit this book to your advantage.