In this blog post I look at NetBeans Java Hints that I deem indispensable in Java development. I will be using NetBeans 6.9 for the screen snapshots in this post.

Right now, Apache NetBeans is especially suited to Java SE developers, although note that the NetBeans IDE 8.2 plugin center can be registered, enabling other features, though from the 8.2 release ...

While the Java 7 specification is not expected to be finalized until July, Oracle will supply patches and updates to NetBeans 7 to cover any changes until its final ratification, Mills said.

NetBeans 6.8 also improves support for the JavaFX internet application platform, the JSF 2.0 framework for building web-based user interfaces, the Java Persistence 2.0 framework, Enterprise Java ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

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 ...

Java experts have questioned Oracle's support for Java, but Oracle swears it's fully behind Java Enterprise Edition and NetBeans. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...

Now, NetBeans 4 takes on the latest Java 5.0 features. It also incoporates improvements in a number of different areas, such as debugging and J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) support.

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 ...