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.

Get to know the JavaFX 2 libraries by way of a practical exercise: refactoring a Swing-based text editor into one that leverages the rich UI features of JavaFX (Part 3).

I'm playing around with swing and javafx and updating a label from a runnable. It looks like you must do it in some other way with JavaFx since I get: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = ...