Swing and JavaFX GUI, Graphics and Multimedia
• Swing GUI and Java 2D graphics. Java’s Swing GUI is discussed in the optional GUI and graphics sections in Chapters 3–10 and in Chapters 12 and 22. Swing is now in maintenance mode—Oracle has stopped development and will provide only bug fixes going forward, however it will remain part of Java and is still widely used. Chapter 13 discusses Java 2D graphics.
• JavaFX GUI, graphics and multimedia. Java’s GUI, graphics and multimedia API going forward is JavaFX. In Chapter 25, we use JavaFX 2.2 (released in 2012) with Java SE 7. Our online Chapters 26 and 27—located on the book’s companion website (see the inside front cover of this book)—present additional JavaFX GUI features and introduce JavaFX ...
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