JavaFX
Developers
highlighted a wide variety of features this week starting with
blogger Carl Dea, who noted,
“One of the most impressive features that I’ve seen relating to
JavaFX, is the ability of an Applet to interact with the browser via
JavaScript and HTML.” In a different post, Carl was
also pleased with the usability of strings in JavaFX, pointing
out that “the added clarity will help people debug better.”
Rounding out the group was Jim Weaver, who noted
that with the JavaFX 1.2 release, it is easy “to create a
ProgressIndicator that reflects the progress of a task such as
HttpRequest.”

OpenSolaris
Accolades
for OpenSolaris began this week with eWeek’s Jason Brooks, who tested
out OpenSolaris
2009.06 and was most impressed with the flexibility and functionality
of Crossbow network virtualization. A blogger from Blog O’Matty
focused on a different feature, praising
Solaris’ “ability to generate a core file when a system panics,”
which he felt was more seamless than in Linux.

MySQL
Bloggers
focused this week on the excellent troubleshooting tools offered by
MySQL. One blogger opted
to use the MySQL workbench tool, noting the stability and good
overall quality of the program. Another chose a different route, demonstrating
how to use Performance Tuning Primer Script in order to tune MySQL, a
technique he noted is “easy to use and offers valuable output for
MySQL performance optimization.”

NetBeans
Bloggers
were active trying out the new NetBeans 6.7, yielding some great
results in the process. Blogger Chandika, an Eclipse user, tested
NetBeans 6.7 and was “seriously impressed” by its functionality
and performance. Blogger James called
NetBeans 6.7 “a great effort from the NetBeans team,” citing
Hudson integration as his favorite feature. Finally, blogger Antony
Du, a recent convert from Eclipse, explained his rationale for the switch:
“[NetBeans] has all the languages I develop in on a daily basis
built-in, offers additional services like connecting to
databases…and most importantly it’s still FREE.”