REDWOOD SHORES, CA-- - Oracle News FactsOracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Update 6 and JavaFX 2.2 , as well as the first release of JavaFX Scene Builder ...

The basic gist of this approach is that one uses JavaFX Scene Builder to generate FXML and then that generated FXML is accessed and used from a Java IDE such as NetBeans.

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.

The Genuitec implementation of the NetBeans GUI Builder -- previously codenamed Project Matisse -- enables the easy creation of Java Swing rich-client applications within the MyEclipse environment.

Previously code-named Project Matisse, the Genuitec implementation is based on the GUI Builder feature in NetBeans 5.0 and enables the easy creation of Java Swing rich-client applications within ...

NetBeans 7.2 makes it easy to refactor the constructor with the long parameter list in the above example to take advantage of an instance of Builder.

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

Applies To: Java Developers USP: Convenient way of creating Java GUI apps Primary Link: netbeans.org Google Keywords: Matisse, NetBeans GUI builder ...