I wrote about the NetBeans hint “Overridable Method Call in Constructor” in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called from ...

I have talked about some of my favorite NetBeans hints in the posts Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code and Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. The fourteen hints covered in those two ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

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).

The Netbeans Java environment lets you create a connection to a database and retrieve records from the database to display in your Java forms. You can also add records to the tables using the Netbeans ...

In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...

Oh, don't get me wrong. Oracle still doesn't want to manage NetBeans. But Oracle claims it's not just dumping the NetBeans integrated developer environment (IDE) code. In an email, Bill Pataky, VP of ...

It took two and a half years, but the NetBeans Java-based IDE has finally graduated to Top-Level Project (TLP) status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The popular open source development ...