

TilesFX is another widget library by Gerrit, who is an amazing developer by the way. It has beautiful widgets for reporting metrics, available under the Apache 2.0 License and if you're doing any reporting, you should check it out. The main focus of this project is to provide Gauges that can be configured in multiple ways. Medusa is a JavaFX library for Gauges by Gerrit Grunwald.

You can whip up a pretty UI that is reasonable about aligning your elements into rows and columns automatically in no time. User interfaces created with MigLayout are easy to maintain, you most likely will understand how the layout will look like just by looking at the source code. MigLayout is a layout engine is written in pure Java, which values simplicity, power and automatic per platform fidelity. Disclaimer, this is not the full list of the libraries in the JavaFX ecosystem! But it's a great place to start if you're new to JavaFX, or if you have some experience with it and want to get better. So we'll follow that path and cover the JavaFX libraries that Andres gave a shout out to. And it was organized by topic: layout, testing, icons, and so on. The session focused on the open source JavaFX libraries that offer something that you often need in a project. But which libraries should developers use for layout, widgets, appearance, and testing? In this article, we look at the JavaFX libraries from Andres Almiray's Virtual JUG session: The JavaFX Ecosystem. JavaFX is better when you use the right libraries.
