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JavaFXpert on twitter: Pro JavaFX 2 Platform book publishing 07.mar.2012, but available now as eBook. Source code available now as well: apress.com/9781430268727

The updated version of our (Jim Weaver, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Johan Vos and me) JavaFX book by Apress, Pro JavaFX 2 Platform, is finished. The paper book will be available on March 7, 2012. You can get the eBook now through the "Buy Alpha Book" program. The source code of the book is also available at http://apress.com/9781430268727.

Here's the back cover description of the new book:

In Pro JavaFX 2: A Definitive Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology, Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, and Johan Vos show you how you can use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications. You'll see how JavaFX provides a powerful Java-based UI platform capable of handling large-scale data-driven business applications.

Covering the JavaFX API, development tools, and best practices, this book provides code examples that explore the exciting new features provided with JavaFX 2. It contains engaging tutorials that cover virtually every facet of JavaFX development and reference materials on JavaFX that augment the JavaFX API documentation. Written in an engaging and friendly style, Pro JavaFX 2 is an essential guide to JavaFX 2.

What you’ll learn

• How to get started with JavaFX 2, including downloading the SDK and available tools.
• How to express user interfaces with a declarative-style enabled by the JavaFX builder classes.
• How to use property binding to keep the UI easily in sync with the model.
• How to use the rich set of JavaFX UI controls, charts, shapes, effects, transformations, and animations to create stunning, responsive, user interfaces.
• How to use the powerful JavaFX layout classes to define the user interface in a cross-platform fashion.
• How to leverage the observable collection classes to observe changes in, and bind to, Java collections.
• How to use the JavaFX media classes to play audio and video.
• How to interact with external application services to create an enterprise application with JavaFX.
• How to use the JavaFX API with alternative languages such as Scala, Groovy, and Visage.
• How to uncover the JavaFX APIs to whatever degree you choose. The tutorials, reference materials, and pointers to resources are exhaustive.

I hope the book will help you learn JavaFX quicker, have fun playing with the JavaFX 2 APIs, profitably produce compelling rich applications on the Java platform.