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 in ...

There are lots of interesting news items coming out of JavaOne at the moment, but putting things together to make out the bigger picture can be difficult. There is no better way to bury a news story ...

Do you care about JavaFX? Then you owe it to yourself to read this diatribe from UI engineer Kirill Grouchnikov. It’s a nice encapsulation of where JavaFX has been (or tried to be) and where it’s ...

The easiest way to develop desktop applications in Java is to use JavaFX. The JavaFX GUI component library builds upon the successes and lessons of Java's old Swing components. Its layout and styling ...