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Created by Tony Lam, last modified on Feb 17, 2010

JavaFX is a rich and interactive scripting environment for developing Java graphical user interface.

• Install JavaFX Eclipse plug-in (JavaFX runtime is not required)
• Checkout com.sun.javafx from SVN (use as your JavaFX runtime for compilation and execution)
  • Note: this is a strip down version of JavaFX, which contains only the desktop profile, with JFXtras extension.

The trick for using JavaFX within GumTree is by pre-compiling the JavaFX scripting into Java classes. Although it is possible to use JSR-223 to run JavaFX script directly (http://sinnema313.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/running-a-javafx-script-from-an-osgi-bundle/), the JavaFX 1.2 has a problem stopping it loading from script (http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5393585). Also, it suffers from performance issue as it takes time to compile the script. Step 1: Create a new JavaFX project in Eclipse IDE
Step 2: Develop the JavaFX script as usual
Step 3: Run the script to produce the jar file in "dist" folder
Step 4: Copy the jar into your GumTree plugin, and add to the build path. Also update your plug-in runtime classpath
Step 5: Use JXScene from JFXtras to embed your JavaFX object into AWT (http://jfxtras.org/portal/core/-/wiki/JFXtras/JXScene)