How to Write a Simple Program in Netbeans. The Java programming language is deployed on a variety of computing platforms that application development businesses can leverage for sales.

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.

Sun Microsystems on Monday released NetBeans 5.5, a major upgrade that brings support for Java Enterprise Edition 5, and expanded its NetBeans partner program, which adds a new "strategic partner ...

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own ...

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 ...

It also introduces a new set of tools for such Java EE frameworks as PrimeFaces. NetBeans 8.0 also adds support for embedded Java development, specifically Java SE Embedded 8. Developers can now ...

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 ...