In the context, I take it the question is about why javafx is better than swing? I would say javafx produces better eye candy, and the programming model is muc

In the context, I take it the question is about why javafx is better than swing? I would say javafx produces better eye candy, and the programming model is much better in terms of properties and bindings (not that one can't reimplement a similar framework in swing, but in javafx it is just there). I feel javafx is still lacking in many areas: - focus handling is still buggy: one can have multiple nodes having focus and accepting keyboard input - WebView behavior differs a lot between 8/9/10/11 - mouse subsystem has critical issues on linux I wish javafx got more support from Oracle, but we know that neither Sun nor Oracle viewed the desktop as high priority. I don't think the situation will change, considering the fact that the majority of development switched to browser-based js.