The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of NetBeans 11.3, the third update of the popular Java-based IDE in its recently implemented quarterly release cycle. This release comes ...

For the desktop, NetBeans IDE 7.1, released Thursday, updated the software’s Matisse editor, which now uses the latest version of the Java Swing GUI (graphical user interface) library.

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.

NetBeans began as a Java IDE but has branched out into other languages, and in the scripting language vein, version 6.7 improves PHP capabilities, offering additional support for the language in ...

Java specifications being supported in NetBeans 5.5 include several technologies featured in Java Enterprise Edition 5. These include: JavaServer Pages 2.1, for creating dynamic Web content; JSF 1.2; ...

It’s going to be easier for Java developers to build rich HTML5-based interfaces for mobile and Web applications with the latest upgrade of NetBeans, according to Oracle Corp. Browsers are ...

And it is boosting efforts to recruit Java developers who have gone over to the dark side. It has a Web site dedicated to programmers considering the switch from Eclipse to NetBeans.

Sun expanded the NetBeans developer tools to include the C and C++ programming languages in March, and added support for Java EE 5 in October with its NetBeans 5.5 update.

I like what I saw and read on the NetBeans website, and think I want to switch all my Java development to using NetBeans.<BR><BR>What do u all think?? Before NetBeans, I use a combination of Sun ...