Getting started with JavaFX animation

If you want to get started with animations in JavaFX, Chris Oliver just posted a short getting-started tutorial on his blog.

It shows how JavaFX makes it easy to make smooth running non-blocking (Swing based) animations, with no explicit use of threads.

Read the full post here:
http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/programming_animations_in_fx

Especially the Simple Path Animation is quite educational for beginners (link opens up JavaFXPad).

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