The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen ...

History suggests that if an open-source project is designed to leverage the energy of the development community and offers an architecture that supports virtually unlimited change and adaptability, it ...

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 ...

One important thing to note here is that NetBeans will only identify these hints if the source version associated with the NetBeans project is JDK 7 (1.7).

The release will promote a stronger open source Java ecosystem by making it easier to share NetBeans code with other projects, said Sun's NetBeans Community Manager Bruno Souza. The CDDL, developed by ...

Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs (JEP 330), which enhances the Java launcher to a program supplied as a single file of Java source code, including usage from within a script by means of shebang ...

NetBeans 6.0 sports a brand new source code editor that brings it up to par with the editor in the Eclipse IDE.

NetBeans has been promoted to a top-level Apache project following its donation to the Incubator in 2016. The community has since delivered several nominal features.

Review: NetBeans IDE 5.0 is a substantial step toward bringing open-source, multiplatform Java tools up to the standard of toolmaking that is arguably defined by Visual Studio.