JavaFX working with threads and GUI

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As puce says, you have to use Task or Service for the things that you need to do in background. And Platform.runLater to do things in the JavaFX Application thread from the background thread.

You have to synchronize them, and one of the ways to do that is using the class CountDownLatch.

Here is an example:

Service<Void> service = new Service<Void>() {
        @Override
        protected Task<Void> createTask() {
            return new Task<Void>() {           
                @Override
                protected Void call() throws Exception {
                    //Background work                       
                    final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
                    Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {                          
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                            try{
                                //FX Stuff done here
                            }finally{
                                latch.countDown();
                            }
                        }
                    });
                    latch.await();                      
                    //Keep with the background work
                    return null;
                }
            };
        }
    };
    service.start();

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