On Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Genuitec LLC, a provider of low-cost rapid application development tools for Java and JEE development, announced a preview of the Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder ...

NetBeans provides many useful hints that improve the quality, correctness, reliability, and maintainability of Java code. In this post, I’ve focused on some of them that I find particularly ...

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.

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 ...

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...