JavaFX™: Developing Rich Internet Applications

13Sudoku Application

“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”

—Albert Einstein

Until now, most of the concepts discussed throughout the course of this book were either described abstractly or, for the sake of simplicity, demonstrated with small blocks of code or trivial programs. For this final chapter, we’ll apply what we’ve learned to create something with a bit more substance. Our sample application utilizes and combines many more of the techniques and mechanisms elaborated upon, more closely resembling how JavaFX might be employed in the real world.

The application we’ve chosen to implement is the game of Sudoku. As Sudoku has gained considerable worldwide popularity recently, ...