So JavaFX is here, sort of! And Sun’s own scrappy IDE, NetBeans, is currently the only development tool that really integrates well with it, which, after all makes sense, as they’re all part of one big happy Sun family! So, if NetBeans is your development environment of choice, and you want to build a Rich Internet Application, JavaFX would be an obvious choice! Or, you know, maybe AIR would instead? Everyone always gripes about Microsoft, and its closed suite of tools, and Sun in its embrace of open standards has sort of tried to be the anti-Microsoft in that regard. But perhaps if you’re not going to lock your RIA platform into your IDE, there’s really not much point in being a company that makes both an RIA and an IDE. Software Development