One of the flashiest aspects of JavaFX 2 is its animation support. The insightful Creating Transitions and Timeline Animation in JavaFX covers using both Transitions and Timelines in JavaFX 2.

In JavaFX script, functional relationships may be expressed using the bind operator. Meanwhile, procedural code may sequentially change the values of the independent variables of such expressions ...

Robert Smith and Tony McCrary discuss how the JavaFX 3D API works and lessons learned during the migration of an existing 3D tool to JavaFX 8's 3D API.