NetBeans is making progress with its transition to the Apache Foundation, ... As can be seen there are currently 7,493,322 lines of NetBeans code at Apache, ... Perhaps text editors are the future.

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 ...

Bruno Souza, NetBeans community manager, has announced that Sun is considering releasing NetBeans 6.0 under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception, in addition to the current CDDL license.

The company announces that its NetBeans open-source project has added 18 new modules to its open-source code base.