JavaFX Notebook By Kevin Rushforth

JavaFX Notebook combines the power of Java and JavaFX with the ease of use of JShell into a rich notebook-style application. This technology demonstration will showcase some of the innovations we are working on to make it easy to get started with JavaFX, allowing you to enter and execute your code instantly and interactively to visualize your data immediately.
JavaFX enables developing application with lots of rich content, but even a simple HelloWorld app has a fair bit of ceremony. Visualizing data with JavaFX Charts is powerful, but has even more boilerplate. With JavaFX Notebook you will learn how to code interactively in JavaFX without initially having to learn the more difficult concepts, and how to easily visualize your data using built-in JavaFX charts.

KEVIN RUSHFORTH
Kevin Rushforth is a member of the Oracle Java Team and is the co-project lead for the OpenJFX project on OpenJDK. He has worked on Java Client APIs since 1997.

[ChadPreisler]

This is a great presentation and a great start. I hope this technology has some legs. I know in the intro he was careful to point out this isn't a competitor for Python related technology, but I think it would attract the scientific community to Java. There are so many grad students out there creating Python scripts to crunch data. Java is faster and traditionally better documented than Python. It would be best if this were extendable so that wrapper functions (like the ones for drawing graphs) can be easily added by anyone.

[meryplays]

Very useful. I believe Groovy should get inspiration.