NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own ...

NetBeans version 7.0 offers Java 7 and improved Swing integration Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s ...

One of the biggest improvements in the NetBeans IDE 6.7 is integration with Project Kenai, Sun's open-source collaboration site. This allows developers to easily collaborate with each other on ...

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 ...

NetBeans version 7.0 offers Java 7 and improved Swing integration Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s ...

Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).