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Mastering the Core Platform

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As we saw in Chapter 4, NetBeans eases the development of desktop applications written with either Swing or JavaFX. While Swing is a stable and well-entrenched library, the newer JavaFX API offers an improved rich media solution. However, both libraries lack a framework. That is, both lack an out-of-the-box solution with a window management system and true Model-View-Controller parts that sophisticated desktop applications require.

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    It exists in two places: inside the root package in the Source Packages and inside the Important Files.

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    Be aware of a bug that was introduced in NetBeans 11.2 (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3290), when you compile a NetBeans module project with a layer.xml and how to fix it.

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© 2020 Ioannis Kostaras, Constantin Drabo, Josh Juneau, Sven Reimers, Mario Schröder, Geertjan Wielenga

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Kostaras, I., Drabo, C., Juneau, J., Reimers, S., Schröder, M., Wielenga, G. (2020). Mastering the Core Platform. In: Pro Apache NetBeans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5370-0_7

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