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.

Whilst the IDE doesn’t offer as many nice Java-coding features as some of the other IDEs, Sun’s approach is to provide powerful drag and drop, WYSIWYG-like development capabilities. The tool ...

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If a developer wants a Java IDE that doesn't require a lot of setup before they start coding, NetBeans beats Eclipse and IntelliJ. Some developers argue that NetBeans has a simpler interface than the ...

eXo has announced the launch of a new Cloud IDE, which is based on a hosted development environment that facilitates social coding, the collaborative development of gadgets and mashups that can be dep ...

NetBeans began as a Java IDE but has branched out into other languages, and in the scripting language vein, version 6.7 improves PHP capabilities, offering additional support for the language in ...

It also introduces a new set of tools for such Java EE frameworks as PrimeFaces. NetBeans 8.0 also adds support for embedded Java development, specifically Java SE Embedded 8. Developers can now ...

NetBeans 8.1 is now generally available, the open source IDE's community announced. This upgrade of the popular open source Java IDE supports developers working with Java SE 8, Java SE Embedded 8, and ...

You can’t have a list of the best IDE for web development without including NetBeans. It’s among one of the most popular options for the best IDE because it’s a no-nonsense software for Java ...

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.