One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT . Several online resources document how this is done.

JavaFX es un conjunto de paquetes de gráficos y medios que permite a los desarrolladores diseñar, crear, probar, depurar e implementar aplicaciones de clientes enriquecidos que operan de manera ...

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. ... Swing ...

In JavaFX, component properties are type safe, referenced by method (and not via string name like in Swing) and, what is probably the most significant improvement, support binding. The JavaFX ...

We describe a case study of the migration of an interactive diagramming tool written in Java from the Swing graphical user interface framework to JavaFX. The outcome is presented as five lessons about ...

OK, so recall my note from last month on Sun's de-funding of SwingX , and how this indicates the ascendancy of JavaFX as Java's preferred UI. Well, this gets elaborated in a much more interesting ...