Laying Out a User Interface with JavaFX 2.0 By James L. Weaver Published March 2012 Learn to use the layout capabilities of JavaFX 2.0 to make nodes in the scene graph appear where you want them to be and more. Downloads: Java FX NetBeans IDE Sample Code (Zip) Introduction JavaFX 2.0 is an API and runtime for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). JavaFX was introduced in 2007, and version 2.