The way forward for Swing, SwingX, and JavaFX... also:
Java Today: Kirill Grouchnikov interviews Richard Bair about SwingX, Artima interviews Octavian Tanase about JavaFX, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #186
Spotlight: JavaFX 1.0
Weblogs: JavaFX RESTful cilent, Tatoo as front-end for javac, and client context in new JMX
Forum posts: Scene Graph license, JXTA license, JXTreeTable rendering, and even more Java plug-in version stats