To participate, players download a recruitment kit that includes the JavaFX SDK and the NetBeans IDE. Players need to use the SDK as part of the game, using it, for example, to find a password.

JavaFX isn't hard to learn, and with the right IDE and a complete JavaFX tutorial to teach the core concepts, you'll be an expert in no time.

JavaFX 14 is available to help developers create cross-platform GUI applications with a single codebase. Improvements include HTTP/2 support with an embedded browser, controlled by native Java code.

Usually when people discuss the chances that JavaFX will take off (or not) in the marketplace, they see it battling with existing offerings like Adobe's Flash (and its descendants) and Microsoft's ...