NetBeans 7.1 Beta Version Released

To coincide with the JavaFX 2.0 release, a beta version of NetBeans 7.1 has been made available. If you look at the release notes and release overview you'll see it supports the creation of JavaFX 2.0 applications.

Amongst other updates it also includes enhancements to the Swing GUI Builder and visual debugging of Swing and JavaFX interfaces.

If you're not keen on using beta releases, the NetBeans release roadmap suggests the final release of NetBeans 7.1 will be sometime towards the end of November 2011.