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 ...

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.

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

This week's Java roundup for December 12th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0, Spring Framework 6.0.3, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10 Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1, Payara Pl ...