Netbeans 6.9 beta

Question

Hi,
I just installed the netbeans 6.9 beta on my MAC and importing my existing 6.8 workspace. First start up gave an exception (some state exception) but the second time it went OK.
After the class searches in my existing javaFX project:
1. I got some errors which are not given in the 6.8.
2. When I take a look in the plugin section I still see it's javaFx 1.2.1
The first point are errors on sun package imports:
import com.sun.javafx.scene.control.caspian.TextBoxSkin;
import com.sun.javafx.scene.control.caspian.ButtonSkin;
-> they don't existFor the second point I assumed when installing 6.9 automatically javaFX 1.3 was taken as a plugin but this is not the case. Maybe this must be upgraded manually I don't know.
Anyone did see those errors too ?
Thanks
Guy

Answer 1

hi phil,
Yes they gave us plenty of work with this update for sure.
In my case it's even worse I get a runtime error that I don't have with previous version:
Unexpected exception caught in MasterTimer.timePulse():
com.sun.javafx.runtime.AssignToBoundException: Cannot assign to bound variableI'm not going into detail on my code ( it's bind on a tile customnode ) but if I run my same source files (ca 10 FX files in my project) build with netbeans 6.8 and javaFx 1.2 they seems to run perfectly.
I use quit some binding in my program so I guess they changed a lot in that area too.
I really don't know if it's a good thing to continue putting further time and effort in this language if I must be honest here. Great promises at Devoxx end 2008 here in Antwerp and now almost 2 years later we get something like that ?
I'd expect a nice update on performance , controls ,... To give just a small example I used some edit boxes and as you know they were very primitive when it came to layout and alignment. Now I checked if they added some alignment into that control but nope they didn't. It seems to be they did for button text tough.
Also releasing mobile 1.3 at the same time was a must have in my opinion because I can write some 1000 lines on that if I want ;-)
I wrote a comment once on a blog of Michael Heinrichs which is in the mobile team I think:
http://blog.netopyr.com/2009/02/22/best-practices-for-javafx-mobile-applications/
-> the last comment is mine ;-)
The 1 miljon question I have is:
Is HTML5 the future candidate to build nice rich interfaces and replace most of the kind of things like javaFx , Flash , Silverlight ?
( Don't give your bankaccount ;-)
-G