Lessons Learned in Migrating from Swing to JavaFX
This addresses challenges for software developers migrating between GUI frameworks, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific case study without broad generalizability.
The authors tackled the problem of migrating an interactive diagramming tool from Swing to JavaFX, resulting in five lessons about discrepancies between expectations and reality in information discovery during such migrations.
The authors describe a case study of the migration of an interactive diagramming tool written in Java from the Swing Graphical User Interface framework to the more recent JavaFX framework. The study distills the authors' experience identifying what information was needed to support the migration effort, and how the information was ultimately discovered. The outcome is presented in a set of five lessons about the discrepancies between expectations and reality in the search for information when migrating software between major frameworks.