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.

Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit, our modular open-source toolkit based on modern JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 design and development principles uses NetBeans as its preferred IDE." ...

JDK 7 Upgrade Hints NetBeans 7.x offers several hints related to Java 7 syntax and language support in the “JDK 1.5 and later” category of hints.