JavaFX vs Plain Old Java
This week on JavaRanch we've had the honor of having Jim Weaver promoting his JavaFX Book. Jim's a great guy but I'm not sold on JavaFX just yet. While reading up on it and reading responses to questions I get this horrible feeling in my gut reminisce of another slew of (empty) promises from Sun regarding a web technology who's name I won't mention but its initials are JSF.
So one of Jim's common responses to "why JavaFX" is "The simple, elegant, declarative scripting that (IMO) makes it as easy to create a JavaFX application without a GUI designer as it is to write a Swing/2D app with a GUI designer."