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.

Oracle will remove JavaFX, Applets and Java Web Start from the JDK after Java SE 8. Swing and AWT will remain.

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 ...

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 ...