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application development (focusing of course, on those that can be used for game devel-
opment).

Other JavaFX Packages: The 15 Top-
Level Packages

There are 15 top-level packages (javafx.packagename being what I consider a top-level
package), some of which have subpackage levels as well, as you have seen with the
javafx.scene package and subpackages. Table 4-2 gives an overview of these packages
and describes their contents.

Table 4-2 . JavaFX Top-Level Packages, Their Primary Functions, and a Description of
Their Functional Classes

Package Name Functions Description of Contents

javafx.animation Animation Timeline, Transition, AnimationTimer, Interpolator,

KeyFrame, KeyValue

javafx.application Application Application (init, start, stop methods), Preloader, Para-

meters, Platform

javafx.beans JavaFX

beans

Java interfaces that define the most generic form of ob-
servability

javafx.collections Collections Java collections that define the most generic form of ob-

servability

javafx.concurrent Threading Threading classes: Task, Service, ScheduledService,

WorkerStateEvent

javafx.css CSS Classes related to implementing CSS in JavaFX

javafx.embed Embeds Embeds deprecated Java Swing and Java AWT GUI

paradigms

javafx.event Event

handler

Event handling classes: Event, ActionEvent, EventType,
WeakEventHandler

javafx.fxml FXML FXML

javafx.geometry 3D geo-

metry

3D geometry classes

javafx.print Printing Printing classes