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 = ...

A few weeks ago I discussed the idea that JavaFX might, in practice, be Swing 2.0 , in that it would be Sun's primary Java UI toolkit from here on in. This is interesting and perhaps quite healthy ...

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 ...