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.

My examples in this post have been entirely Java SE (no JavaFX), but have taken advantage of NetBeans 7.4’s support of native packaging via mechanisms generated for JavaFX deployments.

Sun Microsystems has been relatively quiet about its JavaFX platform since announcing it at JavaOne in May. This week the platform gets a boost with the release of the OpenJavaFX Compiler.