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JetBrains has released a "spring refresh" of the recent major update of its flagship Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. Along with some bug fixes and usability enhancements, version 12.1 adds new support for ...

A Sun Microsystems executive has provided a glimpse into the company’s future plans for open sourcing JavaFX, its recently released technology for building RIAs (rich Internet applications) for the ...

In case you haven’t heard, JavaFX 2 is the new Desktop / web / client framework for Java. It’s had a considerable overhaul since JavaFX 1 (which was frankly not that impressive). Out has gone the ...

Sun Microsystems has turned up the competitive heat on rich Internet application (RIA) development platforms Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Today it released JavaFX 1.0. For .Net developers ...

While HTML5 is a solid challenger to rich-client frameworks like JavaFX, Java developers have reason to question current thinking that says native apps are out of the game. And for those claiming that ...