25.2 JavaFX Scene Builder and the NetBeans IDE
Most Java textbooks that introduce GUI programming provide hand-coded GUIs—that is, the authors build the GUIs from scratch in Java code, rather than using a visual GUI design tool. This is due to the fractured Java IDE market—there are many Java IDEs, so authors can’t depend on any one IDE being used.
JavaFX is organized differently. The JavaFX Scene Builder tool is a standalone JavaFX GUI visual layout tool that can also be used with various IDEs, including the most popular ones—NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA. JavaFX Scene Builder is most tightly integrated with NetBeans,1 which is why we use it in our JavaFX presentation.
1. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/tools/index.html ...
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