The purpose of this project is to investigate the capabilities of using JavaFX (FXML + JS + CSS) to build rich web pages, instead of using HTML. With the new Javascript engine, Nashorn, the performance of a JavaFX page in FXML and the controllers in JS will be much higher than it is today. Idea is to build an FX browser, a security layer, a navigation scheme where one FXML can tell the browser to go to another FXML and a protocol for server-side communication.
- Get the code
- Open on NetBeans
- Click 'Run'
- Go to the following URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8159675/WebFX/samples/index.html
This URL is a pure, static HTML rendered by WebView, with links to sample applications that are pure FXML+CSS+Javascript. You may also want to go to a HTML5 website, such as this one from Mozilla HTML5 Showcase:
Supports loading resource bundles from the Web Server hosting the FXML pages. Convetion is having the .properties with the same name as the FXML page. Example
Developer can also offer language/country specifics, i.e. login_pt_BR.properties
The developer can setup his application to navigate between FXML pages using Javascript. The WebFX injects a NavigationContext to the script context where user can do things such as:
webfx.navigation.goTo("../otherPath/anotherScreen.fxml");The security layer must provide a sandbox on each tab, to run JavaFX pages. The sandbox must ensure that:
- unsecure code will be run (i.e. local access to files, System.exit, network, etc)
- dialogs/windows can't be created, unless the user gives permition
- access to parent objects (the Tab object, for example)
- provide management and control for long running process, memory consumption, etc.
There should be an specific protocol to allow server-side communication. It is already possible though, to use HTTP.