A few weeks ago I discussed the idea that JavaFX might, in practice, be Swing 2.0 , in that it would be Sun's primary Java UI toolkit from here on in. This is interesting and perhaps quite healthy ...

In recent posts on JavaFX , I have focused on using JavaFX 2.0's new Java APIs without use of the JavaFX 1.x's JavaFXScript and without use of JavaFX 2.0's new FXML .