If you’re looking for a modern application, JavaFX provides amazing functionality with a CSS layer that makes design easy. Swing’s functionality is rooted in AWT, which means it has a deeper integration with operating systems, but the downside of that history is its dated look-and-feel. Both give you access to a comprehensive package of widgets, buttons and containers. There are plenty more, but as of 2020, the most popular toolkits are Swing and JavaFX. *from 2018 (JDK 11) onwards, JavaFX is included as part of the OpenJDK as OpenJFX In this case, it’s going to be Java, and Java has a lot of them. You may also have to press import unimplemented methods from the interface called “Applications” which your main class will extend to.Most software needs an interface, and unless you fancy designing your own rendering pipeline, you’ll want to tap into one of the pre-existing toolkits – a package of code that does all of that for you. You can hover over the warnings and choose import. Make sure you’ve imported all the necessary libraries. You will probably get some warnings when you create the main class and later on the controller class. Your controller class is used to “give life” to your application. You’ll need at least one Main-class, one Controller-class and one Database-class. The code below is a good start for any application when using SceneBuilder. Assign a method in the “On Action” TextField.Press the node you would like to add a method to.Though you will have to choose a method to execute once you press the button. Nodes like buttons don’t really need an fx:id. Press the tab in the menu to the right called “Code”.

I’ll explain the controller class later on. You will also have to name every node (like texts) so that you can use call them from your controller class. What you should keep in mind is that it does not scale as good as, say a “borderpane”. In the GIF above I start of with an “AnchorPane”. My suggestion is to play around a lot with SceneBuilder and learn how to make it function as you want.

Eclipse user interface builder