Oracle is sending its mid-to-upper-level folks out on a charm offensive to convince Java developers of their good intentions. Last week it was James Gosling at The ServerSide’s confab; this week, at EclipseCon, a pair of VPs, Steve Harris and former Sunnie Jeet Kaul, were touting Oracle’s various commitments to the platform. Much of their focus was on modularity via OSGi, a technology that’s already pretty near and dear to Eclipse users. Kaul also offered assurances that “I’m sure there is going to be” a Java EE 7 release at some point, which is a sort of non-reassuring reassurance — did anyone really expect there not to be? Was it necessary to even bring this up? JDK 7 was also mentioned as coming soon, also chock-full of modular goodness.One technology that was also touted if briefly as the recipient of serious Oracle love and attention was JavaFX. This is interesting given the venue at EclipseCon: last I had checked in, NetBeans was still the only IDE with full-on JavaFX support, which was one of the main arguments as to why Oracle wouldn’t let that IDE slip into the post-merger darkness just yet. There’s now instructions for working with JavaFX and Eclipse on JavaFX.net, last updated in January; I’m guessing the JavaFX plug-in linked to is the community-maintained one that was on Project Kenai up until recently. Anybody know if it’s as fully featured as JavaFX’s support in NetBeans yet? Open Source