Yakov Fain Creates Pet Store Demo UI in JavaFX

As I mentioned in the Can JavaFX be used to Develop Real-World Applications post, Yakov Fain indicated that he has started looking into JavaFX and plans to publish a couple of articles (in Java Developer's Journal) going through development of an application that real-world software developers can relate to.

Today, Yakov released an excellent article entitled Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0.- Part I which includes a quick video (6 minutes) of the Pet Store Demo UI in JavaFX. In this version, the JavaFX program is integrated with Sun's Pet Store Demo application services and database. For example, the screenshot above shows the information about one of the available cats. The screenshot below demonstrates the ability to use the wrap() function of the SwingComponent class to wrap Swing components, in this case to add data about a new pet.

Be sure to take a look at this article and video, which features Sylvester Stallone (just kidding, the screenshot below shows Yakov Fain being added as a pet and uploading his picture).

Congratulations, Yakov, and thanks for this great example of using JavaFX for the UI in an enterprise application!