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 ...

We're told that the future of applications relies on app servers and rich, graphical clients. But will market share or common sense determine which method of building RIAs that developers choose most?

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 ...