JavaFX 8: New Features & Enhancements

JavaFX 8 contains many new and exciting features for JavaFX developers, including enhancements to WebView’s HTML5 support , 3-D, the ability to embed Swing nodes inside a JavaFX Scene Graph, new UI controls, a new visual theme, and much more. JavaFX has also been ported to a variety of new embedded platforms. In this session an overview of the new functionality in JavaFX 8 and OpenJFX will be given, and JavaFX 8 development, including Lambda features, will be demonstrated on a Raspberry Pi.


Authors:
Jim Weaver
James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Chief Technical Officer at LAT, Inc.; a technology consulting and software development company. He is also the President of JMentor®, in which he writes books, speaks for groups and conferences, and provides training and consulting services on the subjects of Java and JavaFX. His latest book is entitled "JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications". He also posts daily to a blog whose stated purpose is to help the reader learn JavaFX Script and other JavaFX technologies.

Stephen Chin
Stephen Chin is a technical expert in RIA technologies, and Chief Agile Methodologist at GXS. He coauthored the Apress Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX, and is lead author of the Pro Android Flash title. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens of thousands of online viewers, and also is co-organizer for the Flash on Devices User Group. Finally, he is a Java Champion, chair of the OSCON Java conference, and an internationally recognized speaker featured at Devoxx, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/

Michael
Micheal is pursuing his PhD at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany. His research interests are developing Visual Programming Concepts in the field of Modeling and Simulation of highly complex physical processes. In 2011 Michael co-founded the Digital Brain Factory, a small software company. He has been developing JavaFX applications, including framework components for the JFXtras.org project and a JavaFX app named VPlot available in the Mac App Store.