In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits of appropriately setting the Java release source level in NetBeans. In a standard (“Java Application”) NetBeans project, the JDK version ...

Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday.

However, developers who want enhanced functionality must use the commercial edition. Along with Eclipse and IntelliJ, Netbeans rounds out the list of the big three Java IDEs. It began in the 1990s, ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans ...

Eclipse isn't the only open-source development tool for Java. Before Eclipse, it was NetBeans. Now, NetBeans 4 takes on the latest Java 5.0 features. It also incoporates improvements in a number ...

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 ...

A bigger issue than how strong Oracle's support is for NetBeans is how firmly do they stand behind JEE period full stop. James Gosling, Java's inventor and briefly Oracle's CTO of client software ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...