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.

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE software Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 78 - 85
Main Authors:	Robillard, Martin P., Kutschera, Kaylee
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
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
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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.
ISSN:	0740-7459 1937-4194
DOI:	10.1109/MS.2019.2919840