Effective JavaFX Architecture Part 1

In spite of the cool animation and glamour power of JavaFX, the largest usage of JavaFX will be for building “boring” enterprise software combined with some visualization. There is a dearth of resources exploring architecture options for building serious and large applications using JavaFX. This blog post is an attempt towards addressing that gap. An enterprise JavaFX project can be a complex beast. No two projects are alike. You might have to build a brand new system, integrate with an existing system (partially or completely) or deal with project specific or company specific constraints. Hence there is no single architecture that satisfies all the constraints. However, some of the common criteria for architecture and design of JavaFX application are as follows: Simplicity of architecture Usage of proven design patterns Less coding, Less maintenance Domain Driven Design (where possible) Ease of Unit Testing Some patterns lend very well to the above criteria and I will use those patterns and principles for the design and end-to-end architecture useful in fairly large JavaFX application. Front End architectural principles The best place to start is obviously the actual front end itself.  Pure Java UIs have the following option in this area. Obviously there is the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296). There are other options such as Netbeans RCP, Spring RCP, Eclipse RCP frameworks and ...

Date: July, 01 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/srikanth/archive/2010/07/01/effective-javafx-architecture-part-1

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