Oracle Gears Netbeans for Building Better User Interfaces
20.05.12
"There are a lot of interesting new features scattered throughout, but the bulk of the effort has been around improving interfaces, both for the desktop and the Web client," said Bill Pataky, Oracle vice president for product management.
For the desktop, NetBeans IDE 7.1, released Thursday, updated the software's Matisse editor, which now uses the latest version of the Java Swing GUI (graphical user interface) library. NetBeans 7.1 is also the first IDE to fully support the latest release of Oracle RIA (Rich Internet Application) library, JavaFX version 2.0.
The software also comes with a visual debugger for Swing and javaFX, one that can be used to pinpoint elusive problems in the code. "You can look at every property as it is being executed inside the user interface," Pataky said. "It makes debugging for the desktop client much, much easier."
For building Web clients, the software has expanded support for both the Java Server Faces (JSF) library and the latest version of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), version 3. Web developers will be able to enjoy code completion, syntax highlighting and many of the other advanced features long used by their peers building desktop applications.
Source: PCWorld