Because NetBeans 7.1 uses its own internal Java compiler for the code editor, one might wonder if this means Java 7 features could be sneaked in and would work in the IDE but then would not build ...

The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

According to Oracle’s The Java Source blog, the 7.1 release introduces support for JavaFX 2.0 by enabling the full compile/debug/profile development cycle for JavaFX 2.0 applications. NetBeans ...