Experience with piecewise migration Swing -> JFX

[Robert Krüger]

Meaning, no problems at all or did you accidentally hit the send button?

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> we're currently in the process of migrating our Swing application from
>> Apple JDK 6 to OpenJDK 8 hoping to be able to ship it bundled with
>> OpenJDK 8 in the coming months. In addition to that we're seriously
>> considering a Migration of the UI to JFX and it appears very tempting
>> to do this component-wise, i.e. using JFXPanel.
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>> I have read and understood
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/swing/swing-fx-interoperability.htm
>> but wanted to ask if someone has followed this route and could share
>> their experience regarding caveats of this. How well does it work for
>> a non-trivial application? What are the hidden problems one should be
>> aware of (other than having 2 UI threads).
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Robert
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