Sun Microsystems has released its JavaFX rich Internet application platform that puts the company in competition with Adobe and Microsoft in the RIA space. Despite its come-from-behind status, Sun ...

Before you can create rich internet applications in JavaFX, you need to get to know the JavaFX Script language. So, fire up your NetBeans IDE and take Jeff Friesen’s scripted tour of JavaFX ...

Nativefier is an open source command line tool that lets you create native desktop apps for any website or webpage on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can make any web page an app using it.

Although JavaFX applications be be built from the command-line, I’m going to build my first one with NetBeans. NetBeans 7.1 beta supports JavaFX 2.0, though JavaFX 2.0 SDK should be downloaded ...

Leopard users can create a do-it-yourself solution that provides quick access to folders in the Open and Save dialogs on an application-by-application basis.

Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps with just a few prompts.