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 ...

JDK 7 Upgrade Hints NetBeans 7.x offers several hints related to Java 7 syntax and language support in the “JDK 1.5 and later” category of hints.

NetBeans IDE 8.0 allows developers to make efficient use of the latest features in Java SE 8, by quickly identifying and converting code to new Java language constructs, such as Lambda Expressions ...

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 ...

Sun is promoting NetBeans 5.5 as an easy tool for developing Java applications and rich-client apps on the NetBeans Platform, a reusable framework for simplifying the development of other desktop ...

"Java developers aren't just writing Java code anymore." James Gosling, the Father of Java and a longtime fan of NetBeans, calls version 8 "a landmark release." "It has always been the tool with the ...

There have been many enhancements to its Java EE support, Java Editor, PHP Editor and Versioning System. The NetBeans IDE 8.0 Information page has more details on what's included in the release.

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.

NetBeans provides a developer environment for not only Java, but for other languages as well, such as PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, C and C++. The HTML editor now can work with HTML5 code.

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.