JavaFX isn't hard to learn, and with the right IDE and a complete JavaFX tutorial to teach the core concepts, you'll be an expert in no time.

Both of these are examples I intend to show at my RMOUG Training Days 2013 presentation (“ Charting Oracle Database Data with JavaFX and Groovy “) this coming week.

Gluon has introduced a technology preview of JavaFX running a single codebase across PC, mobile, and now client web. These fully standalone web clients do not require any server-side portion ...

I'm playing around with swing and javafx and updating a label from a runnable. It looks like you must do it in some other way with JavaFx since I get: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = ...