title: Performance of WebView in JavaFX
body: <p>I have a HTML5 UI and a Java backend and want to avoid rebuilding the HTML ui in plain java, so my idea was to run a local webserver and use a webview to render it in a "native" window. The solution seems to be to use a JavaFX WebView which can be embedded in swing. On the paper it sounds great (especially since they claim to use WebKit which has a significantly better performance for my UI in Chrome / Safari).</p>
  
  <p>It works, but: the performance is INCREDIBLY BAD. Orders of magnitude slower than the same thing in Chrome, Safari (or even the slower Firefox). It is literally unusable (my UI makes quite heavy use of JQuery / JS). Btw, I am using the code from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8374365/integrating-javafx-2-0-webview-into-a-swing-java-se-6-application">this post</a>.</p>
  
  <p>The question is: </p>
  
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  <li><p>Can anybody second my experience? Am I simply doing something wrong or is this caused by JavaFX and thus "normal"?</p></li>
  <li><p>Any better idea how to achieve this? I am currently simply firing up the system browser which works but is not as nice (does not look as integrated). </p></li>
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