Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has announced that Sun has just shipped it’s 100,000,000th copy of the JavaFX runtime. This also coincides with the launch of the JavaFX Mobile platform.

Sun has launched JavaFX Mobile together with the JavaFX SDK 1.1. NetBeans has also made available JavaFX 1.1 support for the current NetBeans 6.5 IDE. Support for the JavaFX platform is available for several cell phones from different manufacturers.

With Nokia already owning about 48% of the Symbian company, they have made an offer to buyout the other owners (Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others). This is in addition to its recent buying spree — they just bought a Social Network startup called Plazes.

Sony Ericsson has created a bridge to enable J2ME and Flash lite to collaborate on your mobile phone. The bridge enables developers to use Flash lite as frontends and J2ME as backends on mobile applications.

If you plan on going to the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this year, here’s your chance to save a couple of hundred bucks by registering now for the conference.

The JavaFXâ„¢ Script Plugin for NetBeansâ„¢ IDE 6.0 has been released as open source! The source code is subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (“GPL”) and the Common Development and Distribution License(“CDDL”) terms.