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 = ...

A few weeks ago I discussed the idea that JavaFX might, in practice, be Swing 2.0 , in that it would be Sun's primary Java UI toolkit from here on in. This is interesting and perhaps quite healthy ...