JavaFX fourteen, the most recent edition of the open supply, Java-primarily based, wealthy consumer software platform, has arrived. The new edition features advancements associated to the top-level API as well as cellular progress.
For the API, functionality was added to make it simpler for builders to create personalized controls. In the cellular vein, JavaFX for cellular SDKs are now created from OpenJFX, the very same supply as for desktop JavaFX. Combined with the GraalVM native graphic AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler, JavaFX now achieves high overall performance on cellular, though builders can use the very same JavaFX APIs for cellular as for the desktop.
JavaFX fourteen also fixes a quantity of bugs associated to animation, CSS, and running JavaFX on macOS ten.15 Catalina. The new edition also updates the underlying implementations applied for the WebView ingredient and media functionality, and enables guidance for HTTP2 in WebView.
JavaFX fourteen arrived past 7 days, succeeding JavaFX thirteen, which transported in September 2019. The JavaFX runtime, out there from Gluon, is provided as a platform-distinct SDK, as a quantity of jmods, and as a set of Maven artifacts.
JavaFX is licensed beneath GPL v2 + Classpath. JavaFX experienced been part of Oracle’s Java Advancement Kit but was taken out from the JDK in 2018.
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