This tutorial shows how to create simultaneous, parallel sets of application states in a JavaFX GUI application. You create these sets of application states by using the State Variable functionality in NetBeans IDE's JavaFX Composer. Before taking this tutorial, you should take the tutorial States of Applications in JavaFX Composer.

Java creator James Gosling goes on the record about what makes the NetBeans IDE his tool of choice.

We are pleased to announce the results of the NetBeans IDE 6.9 Community Acceptance Survey that ended June 8th: 88% of 107 respondents agree that NetBeans IDE 6.9 Release Candidate is stable enough to be shipped! A few respondents pointed out several serious issues. We fixed three of the most critical ones, and aim to deliver the other fixes in an update release as soon as possible. Overall, this is good news for NetBeans IDE 6.9 from the community, and we thank you for your very valuable feedback!

Fedora 13, the newest release of the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution, includes NetBeans software. The NetBeans Platform and the Java SE development module of NetBeans IDE 6.8 can be installed on Fedora 13 by clicking on the "NetBeans package" in Fedora's "Add/Remove Software" functionality. All other features/modules of NetBeans 6.8 are available from the NetBeans Update Centers. Learn More: NetBeans Featured in Fedora NetBeans in Fedora wiki Fedora Project

Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is a 20-city tour across the United States showcasing Oracle's commitment to everything Java! Come watch Java technologists engage the Java developer community and demonstrate the latest Java software such as the NetBeans IDE! Join the Java Code to Coast bus, which will be coming soon to a city near you, for a high-tech block party on wheels! Share the spirit of innovation that is the essence of Java! First stop on the tour is New York City on June 14. Visit the tour page for dates and destinations near you.

A short guide to using C/C++ profiling tools in NetBeans IDE.

This tutorial shows how to consume Facebook Software as a Service (SaaS) services in web applications using the NetBeans IDE. The tutorial concentrates on how to set up the complex User Login authentication mechanism used by Facebook and Flickr.

This Pet Catalog app explains a web application that uses JSF 2.0, Java EE 6, GlassFish and MySQL. Carol MacDonald took an existing 'CRUD Web Application With Data Persistence' sample and modified it to use some of the new features of JSF 2.0 and Java EE 6.

The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce that the NetBeans IDE 6.9 Release Candidate 2 build is now available for download. Download NetBeans 6.9 Release Candidate 2 Learn More about NetBeans 6.9 NetBeans 6.9 Tutorials & Videos Download NetBeans 6.9 RC2 and provide feedback or join discussions about the build on our mailing lists and forums. The final release of NetBeans IDE 6.9 is planned for June. To stay current with news from the NetBeans team follow NetBeans on Twitter.

Is NetBeans IDE 6.9 ready for release? If you have already downloaded and tested the latest Release Candidate build, we would like to know what you think. Take the NetBeans Community Acceptance Survey and tell us about your experience! The survey will be opened until June 8th. Thank you in advance for participating in the survey! Jiri Kovalsky NetBeans Community Manager

ICEsoft Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of standards-compliant, Ajax-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. ICEfaces is a leading open source Ajax framework for Java EE. ICEfaces provides plugins for the NetBeans IDE.

After five years of using other IDEs, web developer Phil Sturgeon gives NetBeans 6.8 a try and discovers what he's been missing!

The NetBeans Code Coverage Plugin provides an interactive way to see testing coverage results within the NetBeans IDE. This enables developers to quickly identify the portions of Java code that aren't covered by their unit tests.

Interview with Steven Yi, a composer and Java programmer behind "blue" an open-sourced Java music composition environment built on the NetBeans Platform.

Dean Yeazel is the senior software engineer for PowerAgent, a tool for cyclists who use bike computers. Cyclists can analyze and get a summary of their metrics: power, speed, and more.

This tutorial shows how to use NetBeans IDE 6.8 to work with RESTful web services. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems, such as the World Wide Web.

The NetBeans Documentation team is pleased to announce the availability of the updated Samples Catalog on netbeans.org. In this catalog, you can find a variety of sample applications packaged as NetBeans IDE projects that are used throughout the NetBeans IDE tutorials. Browse the list of our sample projects for download on the Samples Catalog home page. Here you can find applications that cover various technologies supported in the IDE, from Java to C/C++ Share what you think about our samples: Write to netbeans-samples-feedback@samples.netbeans.org Join the Samples Catalog project and contribute your sample application to the community! We will be more than glad to collaborate with you and advertise your sample application and any other materials you submit on www.netbeans.org! If you have any questions about the NetBeans IDE Samples Catalog, contact us at netbeans-samples-feedback@samples.netbeans.org. The NetBeans Documentation team