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From: "Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Is JavaFx better than Swing?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 09:22:34 -0700
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On 08/04/2020 05:59 AM, slawek wrote:
>
> Is JavaFx better (i.e. simpler, cleaner, more easy, more
>  productive) than Swing?
>
> Where is ready-to-use SDK with ver > x.x.2 ?
>
> BTW, Gluon offers only "trial demo" (up to 2 patches, alike Oracle
>  JDK mambo-jambo with free-but-monetized licensing
>  scheme).
>

JavaFX is far superior to Swing because of all the experience* the 
developers of Swing gained. In particular, JavaFX has built in 
properties where Swing had many attempts at "beans-binding" that never 
completely worked.

You will want to get SceneBuilder to edit fxml files and start with a 
JavaFX FXML application.

Java 8 included FX support but after that you have to download a 
separate jar and also contend with the "new features**" of Maven or Gradle.

Jeff

*(Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad-judgement)

**(Oh crap! They figured out how to use the software. Time for a rewrite.)