Limited support for JavaFX in Swing hinders technology adoption
So javafx.ext.swing.Canvas still has not made it into the JavaFX package; this would have been a great utility for using JavaFX within Swing. Instead we are left with the alternative solution provided by Sun – check out How to use JavaFX in your Swing Application.
For historic reasons Swing and applets are often overlooked in favour of Adobe Flash, Swing doesn’t have to be restricted to the desktop domain, AltioLive has proved this. Java Swing and Applets can be used to produce great applications and there are a lot of people with Java Swing skills. We feel the lack of JavaFX integration into Swing does not help adoption of JavaFX, it hinders it.
Java Swing is a mature and capable language. The real problem is that developers want to learn something new, rather than master something that already exists. At Altio, we feel the important principle is focusing upon business benefits instead of technology advantage. If there is a need to build a rich media UI and given the choice would a developer learn JavaFX or Flex?
