One of the questions lingering in the aftermath of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is, what happens now to the open source NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE)? Oracle's release ...

Over the years since the 2007 JavaOne announcement of JavaFX, I have been somewhat critical of what it has to offer. After Oracle’s announcement at JavaOne 2010 that JavaFX would abandon the ...

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. The ...

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With rich Internet applications becoming a key trend in Web and application development, it’s not surprising that more development platform vendors are looking to grab a piece of the rapidly growing ...

The Wall Street Journal story today about IBM possibly acquiring Sun Microsystems (“IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add to Web Heft“) is, at the highest level, nothing too new. It has been rumored ...