NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own ...

When launched in 2004, Sun Java Studio Creator was heralded as a way to make Java development easier. But now, developers can get its capabilities in NetBeans, Sporar said.

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 ...