GUI migration to JavaFX

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Migrate from old Swing/AWT API to JavaFX.

References

• https://dev.java/learn/javafx/
• https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/index.html
• https://openjfx.io/
• 📚 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7268-8
• 🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nT8vurpmqc

Modular / Non-modular (Java 9+)

• https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#modular

Non-modular application
Since Java 9, applications should be modular, and distributed with tools like jlink. However, if you have a non-modular JavaFX project or you can't use jlink because you have non-modular dependencies where the automatic module naming convention doesn't apply, you can still create a fat jar.

Platform-specific JavaFX libraries

There are platform-specific libraries for JavaFX.
For example for org.openjfx:javafx-controls, we will find :

• org.openjfx:javafx-controls:win for Windows
• org.openjfx:javafx-controls:mac for Mac OS X
• org.openjfx:javafx-controls:linux for Linux x64
• and plenty of variants...

The Maven property javafx.platform defines the artifacts picked.

See details here : https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openjfx/javafx/21/javafx-21.pom

Cross-platform fat jar can be built as shown here : https://github.com/openjfx/samples/blob/master/CommandLine/Non-modular/Maven/hellofx/pom.xml

In that case, libraries for (win+mac+linux) can be packed together.