I recently posted an early preview of my thoughts on David R. Heffelfinger‘s book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. In this post, I provide a more detailed review of this book. In this section of ...

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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 ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

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 ...

Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks. Every Java programmer needs a programming ...

etBeans, the open source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages. Similar to other projects, though, ...

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Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

Two new packs for the open-source NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the Web and for a range of OSes. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...

Take Genuitec, an ISV that began life as an enterprise services consultancy and now is a thriving testament to the power of Eclipse, the open-source Java development framework that celebrates its ...

I just had an intriguing analyst briefing with some NetBeans folks at Sun Microsystems, and I'm beginning to think the public discussion on the Eclipse-NetBeans thing (or is it mostly the SWT-Swing ...