When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you.

Sun Microsystems has released its JavaFX rich Internet application platform that puts the company in competition with Adobe and Microsoft in the RIA space. Despite its come-from-behind status, Sun ...

Several cross-platform mobile application frameworks are using HTML for UI design, and even desktop apps can benefit from this technology. Not just web-view apps, but actual local-run application user ...

Get to know the JavaFX 2 libraries by way of a practical exercise: refactoring a Swing-based text editor into one that leverages the rich UI features of JavaFX (Part 2).