Experimental menu, toolbar, and tree UI controls introduced in JavaFX 1.3.1 are now standard. JavaFX 2 also features new table and HTML-editor controls along with standard file dialogs.

Get to know the JavaFX 2 libraries by way of a practical exercise: refactoring a Swing-based text editor into one that leverages the rich UI features of JavaFX (Part 3).

She also disclosed Oracle's plans to open source JavaFX. Oracle will submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community she said, "ASAP." The company ...