NetBeans provides many useful hints that improve the quality, correctness, reliability, and maintainability of Java code. In this post, I’ve focused on some of them that I find particularly ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 (IDE) associated first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adding a Column With JTable & NetBeans. A JTable is a control you add to a Java application to display lists of data. NetBeans is a visual designer that helps programmers design the desktop forms ...

Until that code integration is complete, they advise, users should go to the Plugin Manager, enable the NetBeans IDE 8.2 Update Center, which lets you install the NetBeans IDE 8.2 modules providing C ...