My examples in this post have been entirely Java SE (no JavaFX), but have taken advantage of NetBeans 7.4’s support of native packaging via mechanisms generated for JavaFX deployments.

First of all, install the JavaFX developer preview – get it here You have to unzip it, and place the resulting directory somewhere sensible, chown’d to root.

News NetBeans 6.9 Release Emphasizes JavaFX By John K. Waters June 24, 2010 One of the questions lingering in the aftermath of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is, what happens now to the open ...

Oracle has released JavaFX 2.0, a major rewrite of the company's Java platform for creating and deploying rich Internet applications (RIAs) that behave consistently across a wide variety of connected ...

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.

NetBeans IDE 7.1 lets developers compile, debug and profile JavaFX 2.0 apps, and is the first version of the IDE to support the latest Java specifications and standards.

This release also supports JavaFX 1.3, Java Card Connected 3, the Spring 3.0 framework, the PHP Zend Framework and Ruby on Rails 3.0.