The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: TornadoFX

The two previous posts of this series were respectively dedicated to Swing and SWT. This post is dedicated to Tornado FX, which itself is built on JavaFX.

  1. The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: Introduction
  2. The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: Swing
  3. The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: SWT

JavaFX

JavaFX started as a scripting language named JavaFX script. Sun Microsystems intended to use it to compete with Adobe Flex (now Apache Flex) and Microsoft Silverlight to a lesser extent.