I'm a junior at Penn State and we started using Java. So far it's pretty interesting even though I'm used to C++. I'm a fairly decent programmer, but there's so much to learn...<BR><BR>Two questions..

I wrote a pair of apps, one a server and one a client, and they were free-standing java programs. They work seamlessly, only now we want to run the client from behind a firewall, and it's not working.

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...