NetBeans & FX
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The netbeans folks are getting pretty far along in the release
cycle for 6.9, and the FX folks got their 1.3 release out. Between
the two they've done a a nice bundle that I've been playing around
with for a while. There's a whole
laundry list of
improvements. The biggest thing you'll notice in NetBeans is
OSGi support and a bunch of improvements in the "platform" support
(using the core of NetBeans as the basis of your own applications).
It's getting pretty sweet.
On the FX side, the performance boosts are wonderful; as are all
the new UI components and the tooling in NetBeans to support
it.