Just this week marked the release of Netbeans 6.8. Another release that has been worth waiting for with many great new features including full support of Java EE 6.
One of the things that followed after the release was the announcement in Netbeans newsletter Issue # 420 – Dec 15, 2009 that a preview release of JavaFX Composer was made. The release has been made very silently since none of the other major JavaFX blogs we are following has picked up the news. JavaFX Composer is a visual design tool or RAD (rapid application development) tool that has been much anticipated and will make the development of “business” applications using JavaFX more compelling for businesses.
We are very excited about the release and our first impression is very good. We hope to give the composer a more thorough test ride soon.
The JavaFX Composer is a Netbeans plugin and you can get it like this:
“The JavaFX Composer is a preview release and is available for NetBeans IDE 6.8 as a plugin from the NetBeans Update Center. (From the NetBeans IDE, go to Tools –> Plugins –> Available Plugins –> JavaFX.) ” (source Netbeans newsletter issue #420)
More information can be found here.
The other tool Sun is working on is the JavaFX Authoring Tool where no release date has yet been made public.
