However powerful Swing is, its massive API stack lacks the lightweight higher abstractions that application and content developers have been using in other development environments.

Over the years, Swing matured into an amazingly robust GUI technology used to create rich desktop applications. Not too long after applets appeared, Swing was introduced as the unifying framework to create feature-rich applications for the desktop and the browser. The Java propositionĭuring the early days of the Web, the Java platform was the first to introduce rich content and interactivity in the browser using the applet technology (predating JavaScript and even Flash).

They expect their development languages to be expressive (either through syntax or specialized APIs) with features that liberate them from the tyranny of verbosity and empower them with the ability to express their intents declaritively. They want their applications to be connected to the web of information and social networks available on the Internet.ĭevelopers, on the other hand, have become accustomed to tools such as AJAX/HTML5 toolkits, Flex/Flash, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse/NetBeans RCP, and others that allow them to build and deploy rich and web-connected client applications quickly. Today, in the age of Web 2.0, AJAX, and the iPhone, users have come to expect their applications to provide a dynamic and engaging user interface that delivers rich graphical content, audio, and video, all wrapped in GUI controls with animated cinematic-like interactions. (For more resources on JavaFX, see here.) Introduction

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