Embedding Swing/SWT/Native inside JavaFX

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

This is correct.  Due to heavyweight / lightweight issues, embedding SWT 
in FX is not really on the table.

Steve

On 24/07/2013 2:55 PM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> You can not embed a heavyweight toolkit (SWT) into a lightweight (JavaFX) one as far as i know.
>
> I've investigated doing an SWT port which uses JavaFX under the covers but without major funding this won't be proceeded (at least) by us.
>
> Tom
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
> Am 24.07.2013 um 20:36 schrieb "Reto Urfer" <reto.urfer at pop.agri.ch>:
>
>> Hi
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>> In FX8 a SwingNode is avalable to integrate old legacy Swing code into a new
>> JavaFX based application.
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>> We currently have an Eclipse 3 RCP application with some embedded Swing
>> parts. For the Migration to the Eclipse 4 platform it could be interresting
>> to use FX instead of SWT because we heavily use theming which is mach better
>> supported in FX.
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>> But this implies that it is possible to embed Swing AND SWT components into
>> an FX based application because we can not rewrite the existing SWT parts
>> with FX now.
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>> Are there any plans to provide a SWTNode to embedd SWT components int JavaFX
>> like the SwingNode does for Swing components?
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>> regards
>>
>> Reto
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