The circled portion of the JavaFX 2.1 API documentation for Pane shows that this control (and controls inheriting from it such as VBox) have children as the component’s default property.

Terpilowski compares Swing and JavaFX, outlines the pros and cons of JavaFX and describes how his team is making the switch in this conversation, based on interviews with TheServerSide at and just ...

Ready to develop modern, feature-rich GUI applications? Here are some reasons why now is a great time to start using JavaFX instead of Swing.