Cover Flow on JavaFX in Swing GUI

Speaking staff, all good?
First I apologize for my bad English!
Well, the question is as follows. I created a class in JavaFX, where this class requires some common parameters. This class creates a CoverFlow, like when you pick an album on the iPod.
I would use this class in JavaFX in an interface created in Swing (Java). Is it possible?
If so, does anyone could give me a hint how to do this? I have no idea nor to the start of it.
Thank you in advance.
Hail!

jfx > java - no problem. you can use java apis without any problems like you've been using them until now.
java > jfx - compile the jfx classes and then you can use them as library in your java project, i think ;)
jfx - swing - jfx is using scenario2d java.net project that is entirely written in java so you can use jfx components. better way would be to have gui in jfx, for the future.
jfx libs - there're already some components in development, but jfx is in its early stage, so things can still change. i don't know about any set of jfx classes that i'd call a animation library. we're rather experimenting yet.

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