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 introduces ...

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed ...

History suggests that if an open-source project is designed to leverage the energy of the development community and offers an architecture that supports virtually unlimited change and adaptability, it ...

It took two and a half years, but the NetBeans Java-based IDE has finally graduated to Top-Level Project (TLP) status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The popular open source development ...

The Apache NetBeans team has announced the latest release of the Java IDE Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0. The release adds several new features, such as support for local variable type inference and ...

When it comes to the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) platforms, both Eclipse and Apache NetBeans have held top spots for decades, especially in the Java community. Eclipse and ...

When Oracle "donated" NetBeans to the open source community, many thought that the future looked bleak, but now more than two years on it has graduated to being a full Apache project. What does the ...