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Practical JavaFX 2, Part 1: Architecture of a Swing-based notepad

With the release of JavaFX 2.0 the question for many Java developers is whether it’s time to start transitioning Swing applications to this new UI paradigm, and what better way to find out than by a ...
TheServerSide

User input and Java's JOptionPane example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them ...
TheServerSide

Java's JOptionPane showOptionDialog by Example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To help demystify the most complicated of these, let’s look at a few different JOptionPane ...
Network World

Sun steps up with JavaFX: a Silverlight and Flash killer

Sun Microsystems has turned up the competitive heat on rich Internet application (RIA) development platforms Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Today it released JavaFX 1.0. For .Net developers ...
InfoWorld

Will JavaFX return to Java?

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...