A long awaiting JavaFX 2.0 Beta is finally here. I couldn't help trying it one more time and implemented some very basic application.
I used SWING, AWT and javaFX to implement the same naive calculator application. The overall impression is quite good. Some issues I have to mentioned:
- I couldn't find a way to set the alignment of a component (node) inside the grid layout.
- ChoiceBox behaves in a very strange way. The user experience is very odd with keyboard.
- ChoiceBox changes its size during selection.
- I don't any means to support Action like approach.
- JavaFX components doesn't support localization out of the box.
- Documentation is incomplete
It is also interesting to compare appearance of different java GUI toolkits:
You can easily recognize ancient AWT, Swing trying to mimic native look and feel and absolutely modern JavaFX.
Another figure shows memory consumption of thous applications:
As you can see, JavaFX are doing quite well.
What was quite surprising for me that JavaFX application employes less threads than others. There are the numbers:
| JavaFX | 22 |
| Swing | 31 |
| AWT | 33 |
Source code of those applications is available for everyone:
1 comments:
Just to let people know; you can use MigLayout in JavaFX2. That should solve any problems you have with GridLayout.
http://java.net/projects/miglayoutfx2
http://tbeernot.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/javafx-2-0-ea-and-miglayout/
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