JavaFX

From APIDesign

JavaFX is new, modern UI toolkit for rendering Java UIs. The idea is tempting - instead of bloated AWT and Swing on top, one can use a completely independent UI and lightweight library instead. However, as usual when offering AlternativeBehaviour, the problem is co-existence - there a tons of Swing applications around and they need to migrate to JavaFX in an incremental fashion. Unless such migration is smooth, people will rather stick with what they have right now.

Dispatch Threads

Up until today (e.g. May 2012) mixing Swing and JavaFX was not easy because each of these two systems used its own dispatch thread. Whenever one needed to operate with Swing one had to enter the dispatch thread by using EventQueue.invokeLater(Runnable).