JavaFX is a cross platform GUI toolkit for Java, the successor to the Java Swing libraries. In this tutorial, we explore some of the features of JavaFX that makes it easy to get started with game ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn, and with the right IDE and a complete JavaFX tutorial to teach the core concepts, you'll be an expert in no time.

To participate, players download a recruitment kit that includes the JavaFX SDK and the NetBeans IDE. Players need to use the SDK as part of the game, using it, for example, to find a password.

Tellingly, even the JavaFX home page doesn’t actually use JavaFX; it uses Ajax and Quicktime movies. While Sun and Adobe plan on being RIA kingpins both are coming at it from different angles.