The Ensemble application is by far the largest of the sample applications that are included in the JavaFX 2 samples ZIP file and is the “flagship” sample application.

I haven't done a very good job of covering JavaFX. Partly it's because I don't come from the Java world and so I still haven't totally grasped the full significance of the announcement.

JavaFX isn't a completely independent runtime; it is essentially designed as a layer that sits on top of Java in order to make Java better-suited for rich application development.

Sun is announcing a Rich Internet Application technology, JavaFX, that looks to compete with Ajax, Silverlight and Flash. With so many Java developers out there, even a version as early as this ...

This idea is intuitive to anyone who has ever written any application that includes interaction with users. Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most ...