Unlock 60+ Handy JavaFX Tools for Rapid GUI Development
Despite limited online resources, this article presents a comprehensive collection of over 60 JavaFX utilities, setup instructions, and examples—including QR code generation, character escaping, and PDF conversion—to help developers quickly build and debug GUI applications.
JavaFX resources are relatively scarce, leading some to wonder if the technology is obsolete. While its future is uncertain, many still find it valuable for building small GUI utilities.
For developers interested in creating GUI tools, JavaFX remains a solid choice. To help, the author has compiled a practical collection of JavaFX‑based utilities for easier development, coding, and debugging.
The collection, created in spare time, includes examples of layout, internationalization, third‑party UI libraries such as ControlsFX and JFoenix, external JAR loading (plugin mechanism), and more.
Considering the popularity of Spring Boot, the author also provides a SpringBoot‑JavaFX project.
So far the author has gathered over 60 small tools. Selected examples include:
QRCodeBuilder – QR code generator with logo, screenshot, custom formats (uses google.zxing, jkeymaster).
EscapeCharacter – Escape characters for HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, CSV, SQL (uses commons‑lang3).
ZHConverter – String conversion for pinyin, simplified‑traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong variants, numeric to Chinese amount, etc. (uses hanlp).
PdfConvertTool – PDF conversion (currently PDF to image and PDF to text) (uses pdfbox).
DecompilerWxApkgTool – WeChat mini‑program decompiler.
RdbmsSyncTool – Relational database synchronization tool.
Environment setup:
JDK 1.8, Maven build.
IDE: Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA (IntelliJ recommended).
Install Lombok plugin.
Download required xcore package.
Use javafx‑maven‑plugin for packaging (Windows, Linux, macOS installers).
Optionally use exe4j to convert JAR to EXE.
Use InnoSetup to create Windows installer.
The project repository is available on GitHub: https://github.com/Wechat-TJ/TJ-WORLD-FORU.
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Programmer DD
A tinkering programmer and author of "Spring Cloud Microservices in Action"
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