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.

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 ...

NetBeans provides a developer environment for not only Java, but for other languages as well, such as PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, C and C++. The HTML editor now can work with HTML5 code.

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.

Hundreds of attendees for Sun's fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0.

Aiming to satisfy the growing demand among Java developers for support for newer technologies used to build advanced user interfaces, Oracle this week released another update of the NetBeans ...