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 ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

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 ...

Oracle Corp. has proposed contributing the NetBeans IDE to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) via the Apache Incubator Project. The open source project will be called Apache NetBeans, and will ...

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.

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.

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...