I'm about to spice up an old platform application and looking at JavaFX for that purpose.
Most of the things I have seen and tested so far is related to put a JFXPanel in a TopComponent, but I would like to use a Stage as my root window, and still be able to enjoy much of the platform, such as lookup and plugin manager. While poking around I got something to work: A runtime container that starts an Application with a Stage, and displays a functional Plugin Manager in an Alert Dialog. Even if this looks promising, I ask myself, is there a more established way of doing this? Screenshot and source is available at https://github.com/trixon/netbeans-nbpfx /Patrik
