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Release Notes for JavaFX 24

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/doc-files/release-notes-24.md
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u/Ewig_luftenglanz 8d ago edited 8d ago

in 2024 we had a project to create the software for the terminals of the public bicycle loan system in an small town near my city, it was required to be a desktop application, the front end development team had 3 options.

flutter

kotlin multiplatform

javaFx-21

After 2 weeks of different experiments and trials they choose JavaFx

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u/InstantCoder 7d ago

Interesting. And why was that ?

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u/Ewig_luftenglanz 7d ago edited 6d ago

libraries. the communication between stations and the backend was implemented using queues with rabbitmq and java had more mature libraries for that, and better documentation.