One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT . Several online resources document how this is done.

Get to know the JavaFX 2 libraries by way of a practical exercise: refactoring a Swing-based text editor into one that leverages the rich UI features of JavaFX (Part 2).

I'm playing around with swing and javafx and updating a label from a runnable. It looks like you must do it in some other way with JavaFx since I get: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = ...

According to Hofert, while both LWUIT and JavaFX enable creating a better and more compelling user interface for mobile and other devices, there are really two target audiences / handset profiles ...