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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development
Cookbook

Vladimir Vivien

Chapter No.5
"JavaFX Media"

In this package, you will find:
A Biography of the author of the book
A preview chapter from the book, Chapter NO.5 " JavaFX Media "
A synopsis of the book’s content
Information on where to buy this book

About the Author
Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States.Past and current
experience include development in Java and .Net for industries including publishing,
financial, and healthcare. He has worked with a varied number of technologies including
user-facing GUI frontends and backend middleware. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open
source projects. He is the author of JmxBuilder a Groovy DSL for instrumentation and
management that is now part of thecore Groovy project. Vladimir has presented some of
his ideas at JavaOne, NFJS Software Symposium, and local Java user groups.
Besides JavaFX, he has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Scala,
BugLabs, Arduino, SunSPOT, and any other interesting projects running on the JVM.
You can follow Vladimir through his blog: http://blog.vladimirvivien.com/,
Twitter:http://twitter.com/vladimirvivien, and LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/ in/vvivien .

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Firstly, I want to thank my wife for her support, especially during the crunch
period when I would lock myself in my office for hours to finish a chapter. I also
want to thank everyone who offered kind and encouraging words thatkept me
going when I wanted to literally walk away from the project.
A special shout out goes to Sarah Cullington, my editor, who is the reason that
this book exists. Thank you, Sarah, for not giving up on the project despite its
many setbacks. Thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team for taking the risk in a
new author like myself, and in a nascent technology like JavaFX.
Finally, I mustgive a shout out to to the Sun team, who saw the need for a
declarative language for rich client development on the VM, and seized the
opportunity to bring JavaFX to life. Although JavaFX is new in this space, thanks
to the hard work of these dedicated engineers, JavaFX is a complete platform
with a complete toolset for developing rich and engaging visual applications on
the JVM.

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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development
Cookbook
This book is a collection of code recipes, examples, and informative discourses designed
to enable the reader to get started with creating JavaFX application quickly. The book is
arranged as a series of loosely related code recipes that a reader can easily select tofi t his
or her needs. It exposes readers to a great variety of topics designed to satisfy different
skill levels. Readers will learn about the language, animation techniques, paints, effects,
JavaFX controls, integration of Swing components, styling with CSS, audio/video,
deployment practices, and JavaFX integration with Adobe design tools.

What This Book Covers
Chapter 1, Getting Startedwith JavaFX... This is the "getting started" chapter of the
book. It provides introductory materials to the platform, including installation instructions
to get your environment set up. It also covers language basics such as classes, data types,
function usage, variable declaration, data binding, triggers, Java and JavaFX integration.
Chapter 2, Creating JavaFX Applications... This chaptercovers the essential building
blocks of the JavaFX application framework, including primitive shapes, path, text,
constructive area geometry, mouse/keyboard input, custom node, and window styling.
Chapter 3, Transformations, Animations, and Effects... This chapter explores the
animation capabilities supported in JavaFX. You start with the Transition API to quickly
build simple animations. The...