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.

We've discussed here before the brewing battle between Swing and JavaFX for the hearts and minds of desktop Java GUI developers. Will the two technologies develop in parallel, each with their own ...

I'm playing around with swing and javafx and updating a label from a runnable. It looks like you must do it in some other way with JavaFx since I get: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = ...

JavaFX was an important part of Sun's strategy for fighting back and restoring Java's client-side relevance, but it was poorly communicated and weakly executed.

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...