JavaFX with Your Dad's Java (a.k.a. Swing)

JavaFX deliberately left out a lot of Swing components because they think it is targeted for RIA and mobile platform.  I am not sure if that logic make sense.  Anyway, here is a minimum example of how to reuse existing Swing component in JavaFX.  In the example below I use a JEditorPane as a JavaFX component.

SimpleSwingEditor.fx

package com.aspectsolution.javafx.example;

import javafx.ext.swing.SwingComponent;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import java.awt.Dimension;

public class SimpleSwingEditor extends SwingComponent {

  public override function createJComponent() {
      var wrappedEditor: JEditorPane;
      wrappedEditor = new JEditorPane();
      wrappedEditor.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));
      return new JEditorPane();
  }
}

Main.fx

/*
* Main.fx
*
* Created on Dec 10, 2008, 11:23:38 PM
*/

package com.aspectsolution.javafx.example;

import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.scene.shape.Circle;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;

Stage {
  title: "Simple Swing in FX"
  width: 400
  height: 300
  scene: Scene {
      content:
          Group {
              content: [
                  Rectangle {
                      width: 400
                      height: 300
                      fill: Color.BEIGE
                  },
                  Circle {
                      centerX:200
                      centerY:130
                      radius: 120
                      fill: Color.LIGHTBLUE
                  },
                  Text {
                      font: Font {
                          size: 24
                      }
                      x: 10, y: 30
                      content: "A Simple Editor"
                  },
                  SimpleSwingEditor {
                      width: 400, height: 270
                      translateY: 60
                      opacity: 0.8
                  }
              ]
          }

  }
}