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 ...

As JDK 7 is more or less feature-complete (with API changes due to be halted at the end of April), you have the freedom of experimenting all its new functionalities, and using the NetBeans IDE 7.0 ...

NetBeans version 7.0 offers Java 7 and improved Swing integration Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s ...