While it will stay part of the core language for years to come, it will not be the focus of Sun's innovation in the UI space. That innovation wil be in JavaFX. Fabrizio Giudici, in a blog post ...

In spite of JavaFX's steep learning curve, its "eye candy factor" convinced Lynden Inc. senior software architect Rob Terpilowski to leave Swing behind and use JavaFX to design rich user interfaces ...