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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.

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.

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