JavaFX Script makes it easy for developers to quickly develop high-quality UI-intensive applications very quickly. As JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications demonstrates, developers can develop Rich Internet Applications and rich client-side user interfaces quickly and easily with this potential replacement for Ajax and perhaps even ActionScript and other scripting found in Flash.

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Terribly out of date. - 2008-12-16
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I bought this book because it was the the only thing available for JavaFX at the time. I tried to work through some of the examples, but was disappointed to find out the even the HelloWorld program would not compile. After going a bit deeper, I realized that major keywords have changed, and entire packages have been moved or rewritten or dropped since the book was written. The book also moves very quickly into a fairly complex example program that takes several chapters to complete, and translating between the old syntax and the new syntax doesn't look very easy. Don't get me wrong - this was a well written book at the time. However, due to the number of changes in the JavaFX language, it is at best useless and at worst misleading.

I am a person who likes to learn a new technology by reading a good book, where someone has taken the time to distill the essentials into as compact a form as possible. I can tell you after reading through this book, either wait for the next edition or for one of the other pending books that is based on the 1.0 release of the language. You will find that you are much better off trying to work this technology out from the more correct information that is published on the internet rather than from this book.

Wow, horrible that it's on the market. Syntax is not valid! - 2009-05-24
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This book is really out of date. It appears the Author went on the original spec of JavaFX and they changed it somewhere after release. The book is worthless if you are trying to follow the examples with the new updated syntax. I don't think you can blame the author on this, but it really should be pulled from publication. Buyer beware on this book!

Obsolete - 2009-04-01
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Caution! This book is obsolete since March 2008, after Sun has modified the syntax of JavaFX Script.

Starting in the JavaFX World - 2008-03-30
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I'm starting in the JavaFX world and this book is helping me on this. I'm using some JavaFX tools and the Netbeans JavaFX plugin.
James L. Weaver is always in the jfx discussion lists and is very accessible. Thanks. :)

This book has been superseded by Pro JavaFX Platform - 2009-06-22
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This book has been superseded by Pro JavaFXT Platform: Script, Desktop and Mobile RIA with JavaT Technology
The new book was written by me (James L. Weaver), Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin and Dean Iverson. It covers JavaFX 1.2 in-depth, and will ship in July 2009. Thanks,
James L. (Jim) Weaver

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