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.

Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun’s open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week. Speaking at ...

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.