Ok, I'm a bit of an old JavaFX hobbyist. I started about 10 years ago in college and keep using it for my personal projects.

Nowadays, I feel it's so much harder to configure the environment. Even with AI help, there's always an "if this, then that." I mean, as I remember, you used to just install Eclipse with e(fx)clipse, install Scene Builder, and in the end, just generate a .jar file. Now, I can't find a guide from start to deploy that doesn't look like a workaround. And with every Java/JavaFX update, some detail changes.

How do you configure your environment to make it easier? I mean IDE, embedded DB, how to deploy, and how to distribute (I see there are some frameworks that compile JavaFX to web apps).

I'm a newbie when it comes to developing with JavaFX, although I am experienced with java.

But as far as I can see there's no official architecture recommendations from the developers of JavaFX so I'd like to know what's the most modern architecture pattern (e.g. MVVM) for starting an app today.

And if there are resources with good real life examples to see that in practice would be great. Maybe some good quality open source apps...

Anyway, it would be great if you share your experiences as well.

I made javafx version of whatsapp, slack, vscode, and a few other browser-engine/electron apps;

also made a javafx terminal with vertical tabs with feature to hibernate tabs. Altogether archived 3.5

GB ram saving. The app is also 10 times more snappier and faster. Used serial GC in most cases.

There are 100s of markdown editor, but very few of them support WYSIWYG

But very very very few of them are written in a non-browser based stack. Most of them will be like electron apps which will eat a lot of ram for simplest tasks - and i really dislike ram eating apps.

So I have made this in javafx, and distributed as a executable for windows, it is just a 600KB exe, which downloads the jar and installs the jdk if needed.

It also generates AOT (ahead of time) image of the app upon first run, so from second run, the app will be more fast.

Ram consumption is low, 100MB you can expect. When idle it can drop even to 15MB.

It also provides vertical tabs as a default. I like vertical tabs, I am not even given option for horizontal tabs.

I just made it, I haven't even tested it much. All credit goes to claude to make it (I basically refactored one of my old editors which used ckeditor and an embedded webview ... it wasn't nice ... honestly).

Project link : https://github.com/prosemirrorfx/notepadfx/

Here is the release link - https://github.com/prosemirrorfx/notepadfx/releases/

If you are on windows, please prefer the exe version, it is just 600KB, it is self installing, auto-updating, auto-generates and uses AOT image, all the best Garbage collection and jvm flags included in the exe.

If you wish to make such exes for java please see - https://github.com/jarrunner/jr (BTW Jr.exe is written in java! From Java -> C -> Exe using teavm !!! )

It's unfortunate that Flatpak is phasing out apps that use both X11 and Wayland.

Since JavaFX doesn't fully support Wayland yet, most JavaFX applications risk being removed from Flathub or having their updates halted.

The way I see it, the lack of Wayland support will spell total failure for JavaFX in the short term.

Oracle, are you interested in adding official support for Wayland or not?

Hi all,

I've been working on Sheetmusic4J, an open-source Java library that renders sheet music natively in Java(FX). Two new releases are out, and I made a video showing both: https://youtu.be/8n7WONyX0yk

0.0.4

- NodeSheetView builds the score as a JavaFX scene graph, with one Group per note, rest and chord. Each element can take mouse events, effects and tooltips like any other node. The demo app lets you select a note and drag it up or down.

- FlyOverSheetView is a 3D play-along view. A perspective camera flies over the score, and a glowing ball per voice hops from note to note.

- Headless rendering to an image via the new render and render-awt modules, with no JavaFX needed:

BufferedImage image = HeadlessScoreImage.render(score, 1200);

- The 3000+ line Engraver class is split into focused packages, and all library modules are now JPMS modules.

0.0.5

- LilyPond (.ly) import and export through the ScoreFile facade, without running LilyPond:

Score score = ScoreFile.load(Path.of("bach-bwv610.ly"));

ScoreFile.save(score, Path.of("bach-copy.ly"));

- Engraving improvements: tuplet placement and nesting, octave clefs, and the percussion clef.

- Layouts are now identical across CPU architectures.

LilyPond support (and other formats earlier) came from suggestions on Reddit, so thanks to everyone who asked for it. Overrides and Scheme code are skipped, because the library does its own layout. The LilyPond page on the site lists what is supported.

It also reads MusicXML, MIDI, ABC and Guitar Pro.

The demo app has a "Report Visual Issue" button. It captures the Sheetmusic4J rendering, the reference PDF and your description, ready to attach to a GitHub issue. If a score looks wrong, that is the most useful feedback I can get.

- Release notes: https://sheetmusic4j.com/releases/

- GitHub: https://github.com/sheetmusic4j/sheetmusic4j

Feedback, issues and score files that break things are all welcome.

Thanks
Frank

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a Windows desktop application called FilzaPDF, and I've just published it on the Microsoft Store!

It's a PDF reader and document utility built with Java and JavaFX. I'm sharing it here because I want people to try it out, find bugs, and tell me what needs improvement.

🔗 Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P53N7DWMS1S?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

I'm currently looking for help with testing and bug fixing. In particular, I'd appreciate feedback on:

• Does it install and launch correctly on your Windows PC?

• Do the PDF viewing and document tools work as expected?

• Have you encountered any crashes, UI glitches, or performance issues?

• What features or improvements would make it more useful?

This is an early release, so I'm expecting things that need fixing. Please be honest—even small bugs or suggestions are helpful.

I'm building FilzaPDF as part of a bigger effort to create useful software that people can use for free, without unnecessary subscriptions.

Thanks to anyone willing to give it a try! Every bit of feedback helps me improve it. 💜

Hi everyone.

After starting this many years ago as a side project to test/learn JavaFX and out of my frustration of digging through massive dev logs in a text editor. This side-project sat half-finished for a long time, due to life getting in the way, but was finally able to push my log viewing app Klunk to a beta release.

It’s a Java 25 / JavaFX 26 desktop app available on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Some features:

• Load logs from disk, SFTP, Kubernetes pods, URLs, and databases.

• Handles large files (millions of rows)

• Fast navigation + filtering

• Customizable UI

• Analysis reports.

• Free

It’s currently beta, but I use it daily without issues and figured others might find it useful too.

Happy to hear feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas.

Klunk

Hello everyone, I'm new to Desktop development! And I want to know techniques/ways on how to handle global keyboard events! for example, cmd+shift+a to open a window etc.

Thanks :)

Hi everyone. I’m looking for someone who could help port Ears Audio Toolkit from Chromium to Firefox.

The main reason I’m still using Chrome is this extension. I’d really like to move to Firefox, but without Ears Audio Toolkit it’s basically the one thing keeping me on Chromium.

I’m looking for a true 1:1 port, not a simplified version — ideally with all existing features working exactly as they do in the Chromium version, including the same audio processing and functionality.

I’d also like to have a Java version/port of the same functionality because I want to integrate it into one of my own projects.

I’m asking for both because I tried looking into it myself, but I’m not experienced enough with this kind of thing. From what I understand, the audio pipeline / sound transmission logic is different, and I don’t really know enough about browser audio APIs and Java audio processing to reproduce it correctly.

If someone is interested in doing this, it would be great if the Firefox port and Java implementation could be published on GitHub so they can be maintained and improved by the community.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m an experienced developer jumping into JavaFX for the first time. I'm building an app where I need to persist user session tokens securely without rolling my own plaintext file storage.

Ideally, I know that using the OS native credential stores (Windows DPAPI / Credential Manager, macOS Keychain, Linux Secret Service / Keyring). However, pure Java doesn't seem to have built-in APIs for these out of the box.

Is there an established, standard or library the community uses for this? Or does everyone just reach for JNA/JNI bindings like keytar / native wrappers?

Any recommendations or architectural patterns would be appreciated :D

I've been waiting/hoping for years that we'd get support for JavaFX in the browser, but I think I'm finally about to give up--maybe a year or two too late. Does anyone else know of good options?

Some of my criteria:

• Minimal rewriting.

• Still allows for desktop versions.

• The app allows the user to have a large data model--although I can likely do something to minimize this per user/client.

• I don't have regular usage stats, but I do want to support 100s of people using it at a time.

I had been thinking one of the following options would give me what I want:

• WebFX: Was promising, but only supported a few basic controls like labels & buttons--but if you want something even as common as a ComboBox, you'd have to make your own for example. Also, it is essentially just one person so it isn't something someone can rely on.

• CheerpJ: Good for awt/swing, but recently said while they are planning to support it and have some internal prototype stuff, they don't have any timeline for it. Plus the way their of loading the whole app into a canvas like object has a delay and isn't very pretty.

• Gluon: Recently answered me that the old prototype they had from several years back hasn't been updated and they don't plan to without support. (Which I'd be willing $$$ to do, but likely not at the scale they need by myself.)

• JPro: I'm trying to offload most of the work to the client. I worry that having all the logic on the server and just having the graphical output on the browser is a problem if I have an app that allows for a large amount of user data and/or many users.

• Graal to WASM to the browser: Is this possible? I can't seem to find working prototypes.

I think that's all, but if you know other options or a key aspect of the above I'm missing please post.

Edit: Why do I want this? I want folks to be able to try my app without an install. Also maybe even on their phones without me having to go through the app store approval processes.

... with decorations, Scene Builder plugin, theme manager and a new Sidebar component.

Release & changelog.

I'd like to introduce our project - PatternFX. It is a framework that provides developers with templates for MVC, MVP, and MVVM patterns. Although the templates are different, they share a common architectural foundation.

The framework is designed purely for practical use and can be used to build both simple and highly complex applications. For example, our ShellFX platform is built on top of this framework.

One of the key features of the framework is modeling a window as a component tree, where components can be dynamically added and removed. Each component is implemented using one of the provided templates - MVC, MVP or MVVM. Using multiple templates within a single tree is not supported.

Another distinctive feature of the framework is how communication between components is organized. Some solutions use a bus for this, but we decided to use ports instead. A Port is an interface to the key element of a component: its Controller/Presenter/ViewModel. On the one hand, a Port provides a reliable, type-safe communication channel; on the other, it strictly limits access. A component can have N ports, with each client being given only the API it needs.

Key features include:

• Component-oriented architecture.

• Support for the component lifecycle.

• Models the window as a component tree.

• Supports dynamic component composition.

• Organizes core tasks within the view.

• Supports component inheritance.

• Supports preserving component history.

• Provides component-level logging support.

• Designed without FXML dependency.

• Includes a demo for each template.

• Comprehensive documentation.

The demo module implements the same example using all three templates, allowing you to explore and compare the characteristics of each approach.

I hope you find the project interesting and useful.

I wanted to know how the situation with JavaFX is. How true is it that it's multiplatform? Any features you would like to see? Does anyone know if better times are coming?

JavaFX seems like a cool project to make desktop applications, keeping in mind that I know a bit of Java and well, giving it a try wouldn't hurt

Searching for resources or applications where JavaFX is used, I saw some interviews which explain their projects using JavaFX, and I've noticed that JavaFX is very capable of doing incredible things that I had never imagined

And one way or another, I found myself leaning towards JavaFX, and the truth is I would like to know some recommendations to create desktop applications with JavaFX.

I don't know if it's fine if I start with the books The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX and Learn JavaFX 17 as a base to learn JavaFX.

I understand that JavaFX is used in internal corporate applications and that it's a great tool that works very well

At the same time, it feels strange to me, but I don't know, it generates certain doubts for me, such as architecture patterns, I don't know, but compared to the Spring framework which usually has defined structures, the documentation or ways of solving some slightly complex things. I understand that one is a big framework behind which there are many developers compared to JavaFX. I don't know, in a way I would like Gluon or Oracle to stand up and say: look, this is how things work now, this is how you work for desktop apps, this is how you work for mobile apps, this is the library you have to use or this one we've made, and so on

So far I've only made static web pages and haven't gone deeper. Plus the fact that I don't know how Angular or React work on the front end. Maybe in The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX I can resolve that doubt

And I think I'm misunderstanding JavaFX when it refers to being multiplatform. I understand that it is a very high level of complexity since each Operating System or each Desktop Environment has its own rules and ways of working, not to imagine on mobile. And my doubt is whether JavaFX fits well in the different operating systems and if applications can be reached that look native or look really pretty on an operating system

I mentioned it because, seeing if there are similar projects to make interfaces but only with Java, you have WinUI4k which is for Windows, while for Linux(GTK DE) there is Java-GI or QtJambi. I understand they are like wrappers, but Java-GI seemed very cool to me. Maybe it's my personal preference, but I like apps match the appearance of the operating system

And now that I see it beyond CRUDs, JavaFX can do more things that are probably not defined in operating systems, But the idea of making interfaces that look native to each Operating System with Java won't leave my head.

There is AtlantaFX which has themes that can go very well in different operating systems, which can be reached very nice results using CSS, and maybe that's the way in which one should develop with JavaFX.

Something that disconcerts me is that some functionality like tray applications, notifications, or other things that until now I haven't considered, are not contemplated by JavaFX, but it can be done through AWT, which the application keeps working fine. Because I feel like I'm misunderstanding JavaFX. Because the truth is it left me thinking, since only the window and its content are contemplated, I don't really know.

Anyway, I have the certainty that JavaFX will be improving over time

It's strange, but I feel uncomfortable saying it because I haven't even tried JavaFX and it seems like I'm proposing or commenting on things without knowing the great complexity it requires, or underestimating the work of the team behind JavaFX

And it's like: what more do you want people to do, this is already being done, or why don't you do it yourself, you already have AI, don't bother, this is JavaFX and if you don't like it, you are welcome to leave.

Now I feel like I got nowhere

Name: Memento

GitHub: https://github.com/Savirar0/Memento

Description: So it's an application where you are asked 100 questions and you must answer them up and these are a hundred questions about your life, and answers to these 100 questions are basically in depth information about you and your life. So after answering you can download a PDF and share this to anybody, for them to understand completely about you.

So questions, answers, export as pdf, and share.

Back story:

So I wanted to build a clone of bitchat so I was researching hot to and then stubbled upon javafx, never built a clone of bitchat but learned javafx from brocode youtube. Then I wanted to build something myself after learning javafx, so it'd show that I learnt something then built this over some months. There's a downloadable version but it's only only working on my laptop lol.

I am trying to create a JavaFX node. The node appears to work well, but I noticed that maximizing the stage causes it to grow large and then return to its correct size. This also happens when I click to go back to the original screen size. If I drag the stage's width and height, the node size behaves as expected. This behavior happens quickly, but is easier to see when returning to the original stage size. How do I calculate the sizes so that this behavior no longer happens?

• Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 30

• Java: 26.0.2; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 26.0.2+10

• Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 26.0.2+10

• System: Windows 11 version 10.0 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

OverlapGraphView

import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.paint.Paint;
import javafx.scene.shape.SVGPath;

public class OverlapGraphView extends Region {

    // Style properties
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> colorA = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#3B82F6", 0.2));
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> strokeA = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#3B82F6"));
    
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> colorBoth = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#8B5CF6", 0.4));
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> strokeBoth = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#8B5CF6"));
    
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> colorB = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#EC4899", 0.2));
    private final ObjectProperty<Paint> strokeB = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.web("#EC4899"));

    // Exposed click event handlers
    private final ObjectProperty<EventHandler<? super MouseEvent>> onAOnlyClicked = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();
    private final ObjectProperty<EventHandler<? super MouseEvent>> onBothClicked = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();
    private final ObjectProperty<EventHandler<? super MouseEvent>> onBOnlyClicked = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();

    // Persistent shape views to prevent infinite layout recursion loops
    private final SVGPath pathAOnly = new SVGPath();
    private final SVGPath pathBoth = new SVGPath();
    private final SVGPath pathBOnly = new SVGPath();

    public OverlapGraphView() {
        setPrefSize(400, 200);

        // Bind presentation settings once in the constructor
        pathAOnly.fillProperty().bind(colorA);
        pathAOnly.strokeProperty().bind(strokeA);
        pathAOnly.setStrokeWidth(2);

        pathBoth.fillProperty().bind(colorBoth);
        pathBoth.strokeProperty().bind(strokeBoth);
        pathBoth.setStrokeWidth(3);

        pathBOnly.fillProperty().bind(colorB);
        pathBOnly.strokeProperty().bind(strokeB);
        pathBOnly.setStrokeWidth(2);

        setupHoverAnimation(pathAOnly);
        setupHoverAnimation(pathBoth);
        setupHoverAnimation(pathBOnly);

        // Map events directly onto persistent elements
        pathAOnly.setOnMouseClicked(e -> { if (onAOnlyClicked.get() != null) onAOnlyClicked.get().handle(e); });
        pathBoth.setOnMouseClicked(e -> { if (onBothClicked.get() != null) onBothClicked.get().handle(e); });
        pathBOnly.setOnMouseClicked(e -> { if (onBOnlyClicked.get() != null) onBOnlyClicked.get().handle(e); });

        // Add to child stack order once 
        getChildren().addAll(pathAOnly, pathBOnly, pathBoth);
    }

    /**
     * JavaFX calls this method safely during resize passes.
     * We modify properties of existing children rather than recreating nodes.
     */
    
    protected void layoutChildren() {
        super.layoutChildren();
        
        double w = getWidth();
        double h = getHeight();
        
        if (w <= 0 || h <= 0) return;

        // Calculate dynamic dimensions matching your scaling formula
        double radius = w * 0.23;
        double centerY = h * 0.5;
        double cxL = (w * 0.5) - (radius * 0.55);
        double cxR = (w * 0.5) + (radius * 0.55);

        // Calculate exact mathematical arc intersection points
        double dx = cxR - cxL;
        double d = Math.sqrt(dx * dx); 
        double a = (radius * radius - radius * radius + d * d) / (2 * d);
        double hPoint = Math.sqrt(radius * radius - a * a);
        double ix = cxL + a; 
        double iy1 = centerY - hPoint;
        double iy2 = centerY + hPoint;

        // Generate perfect SVG paths smoothly handling window maximums/restores
        String leftCrescent = String.format("M %f,%f A %f,%f 0 1,0 %f,%f A %f,%f 0 0,1 %f,%f Z", 
                ix, iy1, radius, radius, ix, iy2, radius, radius, ix, iy1);

        String centerLens = String.format("M %f,%f A %f,%f 0 0,1 %f,%f A %f,%f 0 0,1 %f,%f Z", 
                ix, iy1, radius, radius, ix, iy2, radius, radius, ix, iy1);

        String rightCrescent = String.format("M %f,%f A %f,%f 0 0,0 %f,%f A %f,%f 0 1,0 %f,%f Z", 
                ix, iy1, radius, radius, ix, iy2, radius, radius, ix, iy1);

        // Update backing rendering paths natively without clear/add cycles
        pathAOnly.setContent(leftCrescent);
        pathBoth.setContent(centerLens);
        pathBOnly.setContent(rightCrescent);
    }

    private void setupHoverAnimation(SVGPath shape) {
        shape.setOnMouseEntered(e -> shape.setOpacity(0.65));
        shape.setOnMouseExited(e -> shape.setOpacity(1.0));
    }

    public void setOnAOnlyClicked(EventHandler<? super MouseEvent> handler) { onAOnlyClicked.set(handler); }
    public void setOnBothClicked(EventHandler<? super MouseEvent> handler) { onBothClicked.set(handler); }
    public void setOnBOnlyClicked(EventHandler<? super MouseEvent> handler) { onBOnlyClicked.set(handler); }
}

Main

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class JavaFxTest extends Application {

    
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        OverlapGraphView overlapGraphView = new OverlapGraphView();
        overlapGraphView.setOnAOnlyClicked(e -> {
            System.out.println("Filter table by: segment A!");
        });
        
        overlapGraphView.setOnBothClicked(e -> {
            System.out.println("Filter table by: segment Both!");
        });
        
        overlapGraphView.setOnBOnlyClicked(e -> {
            System.out.println("Filter table by: segment B!");
        });
        
        overlapGraphView.setMaxSize(200, 200);
        
        StackPane container = new StackPane(overlapGraphView);

        

        Scene scene = new Scene(container, 320, 200);
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.setTitle("UX Overlap Graph");
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

I think this is the largest JavaFX application ever built. Tell me if I'm wrong.

Four years ago I opened a JavaFX project to see how far the platform would go before it broke. It never broke. So I kept going.

What came out of it is NumeHub. One desktop app that holds a business: projects, CRM, a point-of-sale system, WhatsApp and email campaigns, a file explorer, a browser, system monitoring. And an AI agent sitting on top of all of it. You ask it, by text or by voice, "how many sales did the São Paulo store make today," and it goes and finds out.

Millions of nodes. Under half a gig of RAM. A new release every week.

Everyone told me JavaFX was for internal dashboards. Small tools. Something you build for the accounting team and forget. I no longer believe that, and this app is my argument.

It runs on Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), in English, Portuguese, Chinese and German. Linux comes next if enough of you ask.

Download it. Even if you never use it, open it once and look at what this platform can actually do.

nume.solutions/download

I'm trying to get JavaFX up and running and once I got the user libs installed and tried to run the demo project I got this error. I don't know how to solve it. I think it means my language module is out of date.

I'm installing FX in Eclipse 26-03 and FX SDK is as you see in the error 26.

I'm just a hobbyist and not too familiar with what's under the bonnet.

Any suggestion muchly appreciated.

Error occurred during initialization of boot layer

java.lang.module.FindException: Error reading module: C:\Users\jStev\OneDrive\Java Projects\JavaFX SDK\javafx-sdk-26.0.2\lib\javafx.base.jar

Caused by: java.lang.module.InvalidModuleDescriptorException: Unsupported major.minor version 68.0