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The docs donot say anything about the resource management done by Stages. Comparing it with Swing is useless since they're completely different.

The reason for dispose() in Swing was that even when your code does not refer to a JFrame anymore, there are still native resources which refer to the JFrame which will keep it from being garbage collected. Dispose() releases those resources.

In JavaFX the distinction between close and dispose is probably no longer needed because using weak refs they can track when the Stage is no longer referenced anymore and then release all resources associated with it (if it works that way at all).

So, close() would 'hide' the Stage, and when it gets garbage collected an automatic 'dispose' occurs. If Stages needed any further special treatment I would expect a mention in the docs.

Hi. The JavaFX lifecycle is different than the Swing lifecycle.
In JavaFX when you close the last window or the application calls Platform.exit() the JavaFX runtime calls Application.stop()
to prepare for application exit and destroys resources.
For more info take a look at: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/application/Application.html

Thanks guys.. you both are right! well atleasat!