Consumers will soon be able to download the JRE for Mac OS X from Java.com, just as they do for all other operating systems, and Oracle will provide auto-updates for Mac OS X at the same time as for ...

A preview of Genuitec's Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder plug-in is available for developers. Matisse4MyEclipse is based on the GUI Builder feature recently released in NetBeans 5.0, which was codenamed ...

JavaFX was something of a darling of JavaOne this week. Oracle not only came through on its promised update of the Java user interface (UI) platform, it delivered additional features, such as a new ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

On Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Genuitec LLC, a provider of low-cost rapid application development tools for Java and JEE development, announced a preview of the Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder ...

Writing code manually to create a GUI application is no less than a nightmare for any developer. These days almost all development IDEs come packaged with a GUI builder. NetBeans IDE too provides you ...

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...

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 ...