Continuing to explore the notion that JavaFX may well be Swing 2.0, I came across a couple of interesting how-to articles upon my return from my holiday journeys. The Lobo Project Blog explores the process of actually mingling JavaFX and Swing, putting JavaFX video into a Swing application, declaring the procedure “technically doable.” The ability to do this sort of thing is crucial if the transition between UI technologies is to be at all smooth. Also of note is a piece in which a developer animates Mario in JavaFX, in which he grumbles “why the hell do they call this Java?” but is ultimately kind of impressed.Speaking of which: for all those who feared that JavaFX had sucked all the oxygen away from SwingX … behold, the release of SwingX 0.95! We’ll see if it ever hits 1.0. Software Development