Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi,

I am currently working on my bachelor thesis about JavaFX 2
I have a few questions about rendering in JavaFX

I don’t really understand what the glass toolkit is for and how it’s connected to prism.
If the glass toolkit is firing the pulse event how does prism know that it has to render a frame?
And how does the Quantum Toolkit handling the threads?

And what is the advantage of having two threads (Application and Prism Render Thread) instead of one like in Swing?

I haven’t found much about rendering in the documentation so please help me. :)