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 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 introduces ...

Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Jelastic has created a plug-in for the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE), the company announced this week. The new plug-in allows users ...

NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...

Last week Oracle released the latest update of the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE). Topping the list of enhancements in NetBeans 7.3 is support for HTML5 and CSS, and a new ...

Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday. “The main ...

I am looking to convert a Netbeans project to an Eclipse project. Unfortunately the project must truly open and be managed by Eclipse in this situation and I cannot rely on an external ANT script for ...