Sun Microsystems announced the availability of two new sets of developer tools for NetBeans IDE on Wednesday. The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, open-source environment ...

Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday. Version 6.0 ...

Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment (IDE) associated first ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

Two new packs for the open-source NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the Web and for a range of OSes. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...

I have found NetBeans Java Hints to be extremely useful in Java development. In this blog post I look at NetBeans Java Hints that I deem indispensable in Java development. I will be using NetBeans 6.9 ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...