Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His ...

The reason is because Java’s GUI framework is more complex than standard I/O, and a complete discussion of this framework reaches far beyond the scope of introductory Java 101 articles.

JavaFX 14 is available to help developers create cross-platform GUI applications with a single codebase. Improvements include HTTP/2 support with an embedded browser, controlled by native Java code.