JavaFX's Application class is an essential part of every JavaFX application. Learn about the various capabilities that Application makes available.

I haven't done a very good job of covering JavaFX. Partly it's because I don't come from the Java world and so I still haven't totally grasped the full significance of the announcement.

Listening to Sun Microsystems heap accolades on its JavaFX multimedia application technology Wednesday evening almost obscured the fact that JavaFX faces quite a ...

JavaFX isn't a completely independent runtime; it is essentially designed as a layer that sits on top of Java in order to make Java better-suited for rich application development.

Sun is announcing a Rich Internet Application technology, JavaFX, that looks to compete with Ajax, Silverlight and Flash. With so many Java developers out there, even a version as early as this ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...