Why, in the name of all that is binary, is Sun pushing NetBeans down our throats via its tutorials? The new Swing Tutorial teaches how to use NetBeans more than how to code a Swing app. The JavaFX Tutorial is the same. This kind of IDE extortion does little good for the Java community.
Thank the patron saint of programmers for Groovy’s SwingBuilder.
Update – another example: Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language (for Swing Programmers):
There are two options to choose from when creating your first JavaFX Script application:
- using the NetBeans™ IDE 6.0 or NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 releases (more info below )
- using CLI with your favorite source editor (more info on JavaFX Wiki)
