In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints , I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are ...

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 developers aren't just writing Java code anymore." James Gosling, the Father of Java and a longtime fan of NetBeans, calls version 8 "a landmark release." "It has always been the tool with the ...