what is the difference between java desktop application and javafx?

Question

What is the difference between a \"normal\" Java desktop application (with AWT or Swing), and a Java application built with JavaFX?

What are the advantages and disadvant

Answer 1

Its not a disadvantage/advantage situation as much as understanding what each can provide and the old saying "use the right tool for the job".

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javaFX is actually a different language (similar, but different syntax), but it runs on a JVM and can use Java classes. Mainly developed for "RIA" (rich Internet applications), across a variety of devices. Quite a few built-in features for developing fancy & flashy user-interfaces, without all the typing one has to do in a more nuts-n-bolts (low-level) language like Java.

Really, it's kinda hard to "compare"; JavaFX leverages all the advantages of Java & builds a platform on it for developing RIA's.

• JavaFX requires a JVM; but just having Java doesn't mean you have JavaFX.
• thus, JavaFX is not inherently a part of Java.
• any platform that doesn't support Java would therefore not support JavaFX (....i.e., iPhone, iPad) -- yet.
• note that the iPhone & iPad also don't support Flash, a similar competitor in this space. (...Perhaps Flex or Silverlight are better examples of competing technologies....)

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Javafx wikiepdia
javafx at a glance
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