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.
"WebFX allows me to run the JVM in Raspberry Pi forever and evolve my JavaFX application by modifying FXML and Javascript on remote webserver" - Bruno Borges
It is forked version that introduces URL handlers concept
where two URL Handlers for java:// and wfx:// protocols are defined in
https://github.com/pjBooms/Java-ReStart project under javarestart-webfx module.
To enable the implementation you need to clone Java ReStart project, build it
(it depends on this fork, so you have to call
mvn -install before building Java ReStart)
and launch the WebFX browser from javarestart-webfx module with the following VM properties:
-Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=javarestart.protocols -Dwebfx.url.handlers=javarestart.webfx.JavaURLHandler,javarestart.webfx.WFXURLHandler
The integration allows you to reference remote classes from FXML pages (originally only JS could be referenced from FXML) and launch Java ReStart applications from the WebFX browser (https://github.com/pjBooms/webfx/tree/master/webfx-browser).