In this three-part tutorial, Jeff Friesen walks through the process of refactoring an example Swing-based notepad editor application to its JavaFX 2 equivalent.

The second part of this article focused on the essential features of a notepad application converted from Swing to JavaFX 2. You’ve seen how Swing JPad’s content pane, menu system, and event ...

Java Swing, the Shining Example of Usability? By Matt Stephens; April 14, 2005; Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its ...