JavaFX Project Template

This is a non-modular, Gradle-based project skeleton for creating JavaFX applications.

It uses JavaFX 20.0.2, and includes the Gradle Wrapper (no need to install Gradle locally).

Features

• JavaFX-aware coding assistance (code completion, search, navigation in JavaFX-specific source files)
• Logging with Logback.
• Support for FXML.
• Access to JavaFX's JavaDoc from within your IDE.

How Do I Use this Project Template

1. Download this repository as .zip file.
2. Unzip the downloaded javafx-template-main.zip file.
3. Add the extracted files to your GitHub repo (if you already have one)
4. Open the project with NetBeans
5. Using NetBeans, build the project to download/resolve the dependencies
6. Change the project name in settings.gradle
7. Rename the default Java package edu.vanier.template to edu.vanier.projectname in MainApp.java and MainAppFXMLController.java.
8. Change the value of the mainClass class property in build.gradle. A fully-qualified name of the class containing the main method that you want to run must be supplied.

How Do I Run Multiple Main Classes?

If you have a project that contains multiple main methods, then you need to change the value of the mainClass property in the build.gradle file. The fully-qualified name of the class that contains the main method to be executed must be specified.

The mainClass property is declared in the application section (shown below). Note that // can be used for inserting a comment line.

application {
   mainClass = 'edu.vanier.template.MainApp'
   //mainClass = 'edu.vanier.tests.Driver'
}

NetBeans

This project template was tested with NetBeans 17 and JDK 18.