News NetBeans 6.9 Release Emphasizes JavaFX By John K. Waters June 24, 2010 One of the questions lingering in the aftermath of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is, what happens now to the open ...

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.

First of all, install the JavaFX developer preview – get it here You have to unzip it, and place the resulting directory somewhere sensible, chown’d to root.

NetBeans IDE 7.1 lets developers compile, debug and profile JavaFX 2.0 apps, and is the first version of the IDE to support the latest Java specifications and standards.

Three products that would be of particular interest to me in such a scenario are NetBeans, GlassFish, and JavaFX. I am also curious about what effect this would have on JavaOne and on Java SE 7.

Developers can test applications with JavaFX Mobile by installing version 1.1 of the SDK and configuring the project in the NetBeans IDE to run in the mobile emulator.

Sun Microsystems rolls out JavaFX to challenge Adobe AIR and Flex, as well as Microsoft Silverlight, in the highly competitive rich Internet application space. Java has always had many of the ...