This project is a POC/prototype of a standalone Java application that uses Angular as the framework for the UI part.
The main motivation for this experiment was to be able to use the power and flexibility of an Angular application in order to render a UI in the standalone/desktop mode, without the need to create too much JavaFX-related code.
The idea consists in the following:
- use JavaFX as the basis for a standalone Java application.
- implement all the visual UI features with Angular, which communicates with the JavaFX part through JavaScript objects.
The JavaFX part contains:
- a standard JavaFX application, with only a
WebViewinstance allowing to render an SPA written in Angular. - an embedded instance of Jetty, which serves the static resources of the Angular app.
The Angular part contains a standard Angular application. Its only special elements are action interfaces that match the actions supported in the JavaFX part and are used to pass messages into the latter.
This project can be used for further experiments with the concept, or as a template for a real standalone app.
The ui-angular module contains the implementation of a simple Angular app, serving as example.
The ui-javafx module contains the implementation of the JavaFX part.
For more details, please check the respective READMEs in these modules.
This project requires Java 15+ and Maven 3.8+ to be installed. Node and NPM are also recommended for the Angular part.
To build the application, run mvn clean install in the root folder of the project, either in the command line or
through your IDE (IntelliJ was used for the development).
To run the application from an executable jar, after building the application, use the command
java -jar ui-javafx/target/ui-javafx-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
To run from the IDE, execute the fr.atelechev.fxng.App.main method through the standard UI of the IDE.
This software is distributed under MIT license conditions.
Please check more details in LICENSE file.
(c) 2021 Anton Telechev