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 ...

For the desktop, NetBeans IDE 7.1, released Thursday, updated the software’s Matisse editor, which now uses the latest version of the Java Swing GUI (graphical user interface) library.

There has been a long-standing battle in the Java community over which Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is best. From the TSS Readership Survey, the two most popular choices are Eclipse and ...