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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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With rich Internet applications becoming a key trend in Web and application development, it’s not surprising that more development platform vendors are looking to grab a piece of the rapidly growing ...

Sun is set to shake up the world of software development with the unveiling of JavaFX, a new product family that will cover a complete spectrum of development from the desktop to the Web to mobile ...