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.

1. Get the code
2. Open on NetBeans
3. Click 'Run'
4. 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:

• http://html5demos.com/canvas

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

• http://www.mysite.com/login.fxml
• http://www.mysite.com/login.properties

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.