OK, so recall my note from last month on Sun's de-funding of SwingX , and how this indicates the ascendancy of JavaFX as Java's preferred UI. Well, this gets elaborated in a much more interesting ...

A few weeks ago I discussed the idea that JavaFX might, in practice, be Swing 2.0 , in that it would be Sun's primary Java UI toolkit from here on in. This is interesting and perhaps quite healthy ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn, and with the right IDE and a complete JavaFX tutorial to teach the core concepts, you'll be an expert in no time.