Oracle Expands Support for JavaFX 1.3 and OSGi

NetBeans developer community should be pleased to learn that the open source development is being supported by Oracle as it announced the availability of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 6.9.

 

According to Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice president, Tools and Middleware at Oracle (News - Alert), Java application developers will find NetBeans 6.9 as the best open source IDE. Oracle has focused on the visual tooling capabilities within the IDE in their first NetBeans release. Developers of any skill level will be able to take advantage of Java technologies because NetBeans is easy to use and it provides developer productivity.

 

The free and open source software development tool NetBeans IDE is ideal for professionals who are in the field of creating enterprise, web, desktop and mobile applications. It is faster to develop higher quality applications with this tool. All Java development platforms including Java standards, Mobile and Java FX can use the end-to-end solutions provided in the IDE. When the IDE is launched, all the features and tools are integrated and there is no need to hunt for plug-ins.

 

IDE is written in Java programming language and is modular in structure. It has a rich client application platform and can be utilized to for building any kind of application. The development environment is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for visually building JavaFX GUI applications. It is similar to Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. The other highlights are the provision of OSGI interoperability for NetBeans platform applications; support for JavaFX SDK 1.3; improvements to Java Editor, Java Debugger and issue tracking. JavaFX SDK 1.3 is bundled with the NetBeans IDE 6.9 release.

 

NetBeans IDE 6.9 provides improvement in Java language editing to improve developer productivity. It provides additional support for Java Enterprise Edition 6. One can quickly code, test and deploy OSGI bundles using Maven and Felix. NetBeans is supported by an active developer community and extensive documentation and training resources are available.

 

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