JavaFX Past, Present and Future and Interop with SWT and Swing

This talk will present a brief history of JavaFX followed by an examination of the present version (2.0) and future directions.

JavaFX 2.0 is a modern, scene graph based widget toolkit that is the widget toolkit refresh for Java on the client. It supports rich media and contains an embedded WebKit based browser that is integrated with FX.

Examples showing JavaFX working with SWT and Swing will be presented.