In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to NetBeans plugins that let you view the NetBeans filesystem, explore pictures on Windows systems, check code for ...

In the blog post Differences between source level 1.5 and 1.6 in NetBeans, Antonio Santiago wrote in early 2008 that NetBeans made use of Java SE 6’s new Swing-related classes when JDK 1.6 was ...

Sun Microsystems laid out a plan on Thursday to bolster its Java tools and make them easier to link to other software. The plan centers on the company's NetBeans project, an open-source effort to ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

Both the Eclipse and NetBeans projects are dedicated to creating links between software. For example, they both work to combine a source-code management tool from one provider with a code editor ...