
Scene Builder and its role in GUI development These include being lightweight, having CSS styling, sleek design controls, and the use of FXML and Scene Builder.

It is widely regarded as the future in developing sophisticated applications – whether Web based, desktop based or for the mobile – and is rapidly replacing Swing owing to its various advantages. The latest release is JavaFX 8 and it comes bundled with JRE/JDK for Java 8 hence, the name.

Oracle defines JavaFX as “…the next step in the evolution of Java as a rich client platform.” JavaFX was first launched by Sun Microsystems in 2007 and JavaFX 1.0 was released in December 2008.
