Despite the waning of my fascination with JavaFX, I admit that I was intrigued when I saw the headline “Swing to FX converter” pop up in my RSS reader. Unfortunately, the post on Vaibhav Chaudhary’s blog is really more of a “gee, wouldn’t it be neat if there was one” kind of thing. It would be neat, as it could be a method for funneling Java desktop apps straight to the Web. But even though I’m no programmer, the outline of the proposed solution — leaving the Swing code as is, and then taking its output and converting that to JavaFX code — strikes me as kind of kludgy. Wouldn’t it make for a lot of overhead to essentially have two UIs running? I’m just sayin’… Software Development