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.

With its newly updated NetBeans Java IDE (integrated developer environment), Oracle has focused on updating the tools and libraries so they can be used to build more sophisticated user interfaces ...

Java experts have questioned Oracle's support for Java, but Oracle swears it's fully behind Java Enterprise Edition and NetBeans.

Rival open-source efforts seek to make building Java software simpler by defining a common structure to link development tools.

The Apache NetBeans team has announced the latest release of the Java IDE Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0. The release adds several new features, such as support for local variable type inference ...

NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

The NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) is open source, modular, standards-based and integrated. Because it is written in the Java language, it will run on any platform with a Java ...

The NetBeans IDE has always been open source, so you might be wondering why this would appear as a reason to return to NetBeans. When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, there was a great deal of ...

Rival open-source efforts to simplify development of Java software are inching closer together in a quest to defeat a common enemy: Microsoft.

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. NetBeans ...