One of the questions lingering in the aftermath of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is, what happens now to the open source NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE)? Oracle's release ...

Over the years since the 2007 JavaOne announcement of JavaFX, I have been somewhat critical of what it has to offer. After Oracle’s announcement at JavaOne 2010 that JavaFX would abandon the ...

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The Oracle-sponsored NetBeans team on Tuesday announced availability of the open source NetBeans 6.9 IDE featuring JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications. The ...

Release Candidate 1 of the NetBeans 7.2 IDE is now available for download. This version of the venerable open-source integrated software development environment comes with the expected bug fixes and ...

In October 2011, I used the post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta to look at using NetBeans 7.1 beta to build a simple Hello, World style of JavaFX 2.0 application. In this post, I ...

Oracle has released JavaFX 2.0, a major rewrite of the company's Java platform for creating and deploying rich Internet applications (RIAs) that behave consistently across a wide variety of connected ...

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