Posted by jmaasing on Dec 05, 2013; 12:31pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Jogl-and-JavaFX-tp4030720p4030778.html

ul wrote

The Swing option probably is the best right now but it's not that fun to work with deprecated technology. No new features, no bug fixes, a dwindling user community and all that.

Calling it dwindling and deprecated is premature I think, we will have Swing around for many years. JavaFX will not be production ready (in my opinion) in Java8, maybe in java9. Swing is battle tested for many, many years. There are no new features mainly because; how many new features do you need to lay out a menu

I would say the big difference right now is that JavaFX focus on eye candy and capturing the minds of the html5/css-crowd. Swing is easy and ugly, meaning that it does not focus so much on the developer being able to change look and feel so much as getting a working GUI up and running.

I have never had any problems finding answers to my Swing questions but I have had problems with SWT (mainly on linux) so my personal preference is to use Swing (and netbeans RCP) for desktop applications.