bootfx

Personal project to study JavaFX and SpringBoot.

requirements so far

• weave JavaFX and SpringBoot initialization code
• show a login screen when application starts
• transition to home screen using events

Next steps:

• show a splash screen during start up
• style the application
• show some data in the home screen retrieved from an in-memory database
• generate an executable package for windows

how to render a view?

• All rendering code is centered in com.bmnds.bootfx.appfx.FxStageRenderer class.
• When the application starts, an event of type com.bmnds.bootfx.appfx.FxStageReadyEvent gets fired containing the main stage provided by JavaFX in com.bmnds.bootfx.appfx.FxApplication#start method. This stage is maintained in a static variable and com.bmnds.bootfx.view.ViewEnum.LOGIN_VIEW gets rendered as the first view.
• For every other view that should be rendered, an event of type com.bmnds.bootfx.view.OpenViewEvent should be fired containing an element of com.bmnds.bootfx.view.ViewEnum.
• For each view, there should be an FXML file associated with it. This file will be loaded by com.bmnds.bootfx.appfx.FxStageRenderer#loadView method.

how to weave JavaFX and SpringBoot?

• The requirement for a Spring Boot project is to annotate the main class with @SpringBootApplication.
• The requirement for a JavaFX app is to extend javafx.application.Application and override its #init, #start and #stop methods.
• So, in order to weave both Spring Boot and JavaFX, we must:
  1. Call javafx.application.Application#launch inside Spring Boot main class;
  2. Initialize org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext inside JavaFX Application class.
• In this project, classes com.bmnds.bootfx.BootApplication and com.bmnds.bootfx.appfx.FxApplication are responsible for all this weaving code.

technologies

Open JDK 13

Java FX 13

Scene Builder for JavaFX 11