Has JavaFX Hurt Swing?

Frank Sommers of Artima posted a story titled — “Has JavaFX Hurt Client-Side Java?” — yesterday. He argues that Sun’s focus on promoting JavaFX has taken its focus off Swing. He says Swing is a popular and well adopted technology for cleint side desktop applications and will gain from inclusion of productivity enhancing improvements.

In addition he mentions that Sun has focused too much on the animation and effects aspects of client side technology but what enterprise developers really need is a robust framework to do the good old boring stuff. He quotes JGoodies’ Karsten Lentzsch — “All my customers do the “boring” stuff: editors, forms, navigation, buffering, data binding, layout… They need a framework, better components, not animated 3D flipping images.” — to assert that his believes are on similar lines too.

What do you think? Do you care about Swing? Is JavaFX really hurting Swing?