S'pore students face off in Java challenge Teams from local polytechnics and technical institutes are to showcase their skills in Sun's Java Enterprise Studio, NetBeans and Solaris.

NetBeans IDE 7.2 provides a significantly improved performance and coding experience, with new static code analysis capabilities in the Java Editor and smarter project scanning.

In October 2011 , I used the post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta to look at using NetBeans 7.1 beta to build a simple Hello, World style of JavaFX 2.0 application.