Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment associated first with Sun ...

NetBeans 4.0 adds support for the Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 desktop application software and is based on the Apache Ant open-source software for assembling programming files during development.

InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter. ... Right now, Apache NetBeans is especially suited to Java SE developers, although note that the NetBeans IDE 8.2 plugin center can be registered, ...

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 also has created the NetBeans WorldTour CD program, a free NetBeans software CD (shipping is also free), for any developer who registers with the Sun Developer Network. The NetBeans WorldTour CD ...

"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 ...

San Francisco — NetBeans is picking up JBoss and Advanced Micro Devices as members of the NetBeans community this week, according to an official at Sun Microsystems, which leads NetBeans ...

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 ...

Two allies have different views over whether Oracle supports Sun's NetBeans programming software. Written by Stephen Shankland, Contributor Jan. 25, 2006 at 5:16 p.m. PT ...

NetBeans 4.0 will be available at the end of July, but Sun has not provided pricing nor system requirements yet. However, Sun does have development builds of the open-source software ready for ...