Lessons Learned While Migrating From Swing to JavaFX

We describe a case study of the migration of an interactive diagramming tool written in Java from the Swing graphical user interface framework to JavaFX. The outcome is presented as five lessons about the search for information when migrating software between major frameworks.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inIEEE software Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 78 - 85
Main Authors Robillard, Martin P., Kutschera, Kaylee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2020
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Documentation
Graphical user interface
Graphical user interfaces
Java
Open source software
Software product lines
Software tools
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:We describe a case study of the migration of an interactive diagramming tool written in Java from the Swing graphical user interface framework to JavaFX. The outcome is presented as five lessons about the search for information when migrating software between major frameworks.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2019.2919840