Level: Intermediate. Earlier this year, I used NetBeans IDE 6.1 with JavaFX (part of the Sun Microsystems JavaFX Preview SDK) to develop the examples for my Jump into JavaFX series on JavaWorld.

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.