The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX: Cross-Platform Mobile and Cloud Development

© Stephen Chin, Johan Vos and James Weaver 2019

S. Chin et al.The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFXhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4926-0_7

7. Bridging Swing and JavaFX

Stephen Chin¹ , Johan Vos² and James Weaver³

(1)

Belmont, CA, USA

(2)

Leuven, Belgium

(3)

Marion, IN, USA

 

Written by Sven Reimers

One of the major advantages of a new UI toolkit is the possibility to protect your investments in existing applications. This chapter will show you how to integrate legacy Swing components into a modern JavaFX UI and how to integrate modern UI elements into an existing Swing application.

Because moving an existing Swing desktop application to a pure JavaFX application is challenging and not always necessary, this chapter describes the technologies ...