I’m a big fan of NetBeans’s hints supports as proven by my blog posts on Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code, Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom ...

Open Safari and head to Oracle’s Downloads page.Click on Java SE. Click on the Download icon under NetBeans with JDK 8. You’ll want a programming environment, and Netbeans is a good one.

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...