Oracle acquired NetBeans as part of its 2010 purchase of Sun Microsystems. Oracle already had its own Java IDE, JDeveloper. Since then, the company has redirected JDeveloper development to be more ...

The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

For Java EE developers, NetBeans 8.1 adds support for deployments in Oracle's WebLogic Server, and the WildFly Web (JBoss) app server, versions 9 and 10. NetBeans continues to be a popular Java IDE, ...

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

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 ...

There have been many enhancements to its Java EE support, Java Editor, PHP Editor and Versioning System. The NetBeans IDE 8.0 Information page has more details on what's included in the release.

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 ...

On Tuesday, Sun Microsystems divulged more information about NetBeans 4.0, an integrated development environment (IDE) that offers the capacity to develop full Java 2 applications, including Web ...

"NetBeans IDE 7.0 is the industry’s first IDE to support the upcoming Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 release enabling developers to take advantage of the latest developments in Java and to deliver ...

NetBeans is well-known as a popular and feature-rich Java IDE that was open-sourced by Sun Microsystems in 2000.