Nicolas Lorain

It is definitely Sun's intention to keep building the platform over the next few months/years. Specifically, look out for more UI components in the next release, improved performance, and many other features. For now though, we recommend that you leverage one of the biggest strengths of JavaFX, which is the ability to mix and match Java with JavaFX

Have a look at the following sample on http://javafx.com

http://javafx.com/docs/tutorials/deploy-applet/