The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: TornadoFX
A professed Java geek takes a look at JavaFX and Tornado FX, two options developers can use to build upon existing APIs in Java and Kotlin. by
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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.
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.