javafx

replacement for swing, platform for Java GUI development

JavaFX was introduced in 2008 as a replacement for Swing, which up to that time, had been the primary development platform for GUI development in Java.

There is some controversy as to whether JavaFX is a “dead” technology. The basis of calling is “dead” seems to be more around the notion that development of GUI apps on “desktop/laptop” type platforms is a dead-end—with the alternatives being webapps (based on HTML5) and mobile apps, i.e. Android).

But, if one accepts that notion of developing GUIs on a desktop as a reasonable thing to do, then JavaFX seems preferable to Swing.

Tutorials

Discussion of whether JavaFX is worth learning, dead or not, etc.

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