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2. A few words ahead
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If you’re experienced fully fledged Java programmer, you’ve got worked with Swing to form user interfaces.
Oracle hasn’t fully abandoned Swing — it isn’t deprecated, and Swing applications still work.
However no work is being done any longer to reinforce Swing, and Oracle has made it clear that JavaFX is the future.
However—if you look beneath the hood of JavaFX Script—all the widgets appear to wrap Swing parts additional or less directly.
JavaFX Script appears to use Swing parts as “Service Provider”
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3. 1What is JavaFX? JavaFX is a GUI toolkit for Java.
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JavaFX is a GUI toolkit for Java.
JavaFX is NOT only a GUI toolkit for Java:
JavaFX comes with an oversized set of intrinsic GUI parts.
JavaFX are styled using CSS, and you’ll be able to use FXML to compose a GUI rather than doing it in Java code.
JavaFX contains a group of ready-to-use chart parts.
JavaFX comes with support for 3D graphics.
JavaFX contains a WebView supported the popular WebKit browser.
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4. What is Swing?
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Swing API is a set of extendable GUI parts to ease the developer’s life to form JAVA based Front End/GUI Applications.
It acts as a replacement of AWT API.
Swing part follows a Model-View-Controller design to meet the subsequent criteria.
A single API is to be adequate to support multiple look and feel.
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