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 ...

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 ...

Over the years since the 2007 JavaOne announcement of JavaFX , I have been somewhat critical of what it has to offer .

For the desktop, NetBeans IDE 7.1, released Thursday, updated the software’s Matisse editor, which now uses the latest version of the Java Swing GUI (graphical user interface) library.

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 ...

Oracle started building HTML5 support into NetBeans 7.3, and 7.4 continues this work.This version allows developers to build HTML5 functionality directly in their Java and PHP applications, rather ...

The NetBeans 5 update is significant for Sun, which is seeking to rally the Java developer community around Sun products. The company said that the number of active NetBeans users has tripled in ...

Java experts have questioned Oracle's support for Java, but Oracle swears it's fully behind Java Enterprise Edition and NetBeans. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...

Now, NetBeans 4 takes on the latest Java 5.0 features. It also incoporates improvements in a number of different areas, such as debugging and J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) support.

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 ...