Since the deprecation of the JavaFX Script language and the removal of both the javafx.fxd package and Production Suite, there is no alternative to use designs that where created for 1.x in 2.0. This makes porting some apps that were created for 1.x difficult, if not impossible.

We still need to be able to package, load and manipulate at run time complex vector designs and bitmap designs with named entities & resources (fonts, bitmaps, etc.) into one or more files like we used to do with FXD/FXZ.

A good start would be to finally add SVG support to the Java/JavaFX API without resorting to external third party library (all of which currently only work for Java2D and do not support JavaFX 2.0/SceneGraph).