While JavaFX is itself built on the Java platform, that is where the commonalities end. JavaFX is a complete platform that includes a new language, development tools, build tools, deployment tools, and new runtimes to target desktop, browser, mobile, and entertainment devices such as televisions. The JavaFX is Sun’s (now part of Oracle) answer to the next generation of rich, web-enabled, deeply interactive applications. Furthermore, the applet’s plugin technology was (as admitted by Sun) neglected and failed in the browser-hosted rich applications against similar technologies such as Flash. However powerful Swing is, its massive API stack lacks the lightweight higher abstractions that application and content developers have been using in other development environments. Over the years, Swing matured into an amazingly robust GUI technology used to create rich desktop applications. Not too long after applets appeared, Swing was introduced as the unifying framework to create feature-rich applications for the desktop and the browser. The Java propositionĭuring the early days of the Web, the Java platform was the first to introduce rich content and interactivity in the browser using the applet technology (predating JavaScript and even Flash). They expect their development languages to be expressive (either through syntax or specialized APIs) with features that liberate them from the tyranny of verbosity and empower them with the ability to express their intents declaritively.
They want their applications to be connected to the web of information and social networks available on the Internet.ĭevelopers, on the other hand, have become accustomed to tools such as AJAX/HTML5 toolkits, Flex/Flash, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse/NetBeans RCP, and others that allow them to build and deploy rich and web-connected client applications quickly. Today, in the age of Web 2.0, AJAX, and the iPhone, users have come to expect their applications to provide a dynamic and engaging user interface that delivers rich graphical content, audio, and video, all wrapped in GUI controls with animated cinematic-like interactions. It is a new feature that allows Eclipse users to discover and install Eclipse solutions directly into their Eclipse installation.(For more resources on JavaFX, see here.) Introduction
ECLIPSE HOW TO INSTALL JAVAFX PLUS
To make this process simple, Eclipse MarketPlace Client (MPC) provides the tight install integration between the Eclipse workspace and Eclipse Marketplace, plus other third party solution listings. Eclipse users now have a central catalog to find Eclipse solutions but the install process is still not tightly integrated with the Eclipse workspace. The listings allow each solution provider to specify a P2 repository for their solution.
The Eclipse Foundation operates a website, called Eclipse Marketplace, the ‘App Store’ for Eclipse apps, that provides a listing of Eclipse-based solutions. But, in earlier version of Eclipse, this was not an easy way to discover and install these solutions from within Eclipse. The Eclipse community has many third-party plugins and these plugins can be added to the individual Eclipse installation. In this example, we will see how to install and use Eclipse Marketplace Client Plugin from within Eclipse IDE.