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Hi,
we are currentlich developing a rather complex business application using Swing. Now the JavaFx stuff seems to get up to speed and we are thinking about changing to build the Gui based on JavaFX.
The enterprise frontend would be a more or less full-screen application, with many masks to enter data into. The backend is a glassfish bean architecture based on WebServices.
Is it now the time to go that way? I dont see any usable design applications to integrate many Swing components - and JavaFx Components seems not existing to support all that listbox, treeviews, keyboard focusing stuff I need here...
I am not very happy about coding all the dialoges per hand as it seems to be the way now...
What do you guys suggest? Skip it for now? Or go the hard way as an early adoptor to find all the bugs and problems we somehow managed to get working already in Swing?
Regards

Hi,
I've been trying to write a new desktop application using JavaFX and its pretty tough going with what's available in the API at the moment. The 1.0 release is obviously focused more on RIA, which is perfectly understandable considering the market space they are trying to enter and the fact that if you want to write a desktop application you can always use Swing. I think right now it would be suicide to recommend to your employers that you switch to JavaFX.
The main problem is that JavaFX does not currently have all the standard components you would expect to be able to choose from in order to capture and display data. However, there is always the option of taking whatever Swing component you want to use (e.g. JTree) and wrapping it in the JavaFX SwingComponent class. There are some good examples of how to do that on this wiki page: [http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/SwingComponents] . But my feeling is, if you're going to build your application out of Swing components wrapped in JavaFX classes then you might as well just write the application in Swing.
I think that right now its too early for JavaFX enterprise desktops but I do believe that one day they will supersede Swing. JavaFX has so much potential. It will eventually be able to do everything Swing can do and then so much more. And I think Sun will have to start focusing on the desktop market quite soon. They are competing with Flex in the RIA space but Flex has good support for data tables etc and I see a lot of projects going with Flex when they might have otherwise gone with Swing.
Cheers,
Kevin

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