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copied!<p>According to a long thread that I read some months ago (<a href="http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2012/Oct/msg00127.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2012/Oct/msg00127.html</a>) the only way to get Retina in Swing is to install the Apple JDK, which in turn just uses a "hack" to make applications retina-compatible. That thread mentions JavaFX as a workaround (which of course is no real workaround when you already have a complex piece of software written in Swing).</p> <p>I myself tried to write a simple JavaFX application with Java 7 after reading the above thread and it looked sharper on Retina; same with Ensamble (the JavaFX demo application, available on the App Store) which also seemed to render a lot nicer than a normal Swing application (like the Java Control Panel) but perhaps it's just the power of suggestion.</p> <p>Since I am actively testing each new Java 8 Snapshot release I can also confirm that little to no work has been done to get Swing look passable on retina displays.</p> <p>Our best bet right now (just an opinion, don't have any secret knowledge) is that someone at Oracle (or a OpenJDK contributor) will buy a retina mac and fix it in Java 8. I don't think Apple will fix it by supplying the Java 6 fixes since the guy from Apple said that they just reverted code related to rendering back to Quartz. It did give the desired result but is heavily tied to proprietary OS X internals which are not being open sourced.</p>

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