It’s been awhile since I discussed JavaFX’s latest exploits, now that it’s actually out there in the world, being used, sort of. Not there’s really a lot of real-world JavaFX out there, but here’s a grab bag of interesting developments: One of Sun’s NetBeans developers discusses how JavaFX might be integrated with Visual Library. Octavian Tanase explains how you can debug JavaFX old school — with println. The SDTimes has an interesting article about James Weaver, who became intrigued by the technology when looking for a language he could use to teach his grandson GUI programming. He ended up going with the kid-friendly Scratch, instead, but surely one of the chief goals of JavaFX is to make GUI programming so simple a child could do it? Weaver would go on to launch his own JavaFX blog. Version 6u12 of the Sun JDK has been released, with a number of fixes that apply directly to JavaFX. An inside peek of how Sun shuffles its personnel: Ravi Dharnikota, who cut his teeth on the xVM’s GUI, has been moved over to the JavaFX side. Software Development