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 ...

Oracle Corp. has proposed contributing the NetBeans IDE to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) via the Apache Incubator Project. The open source project will be called Apache NetBeans, and will ...

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 ...

Developers will be able to test-drive the next-generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday. “The main ...

Eclipse isn't the only open-source development tool for Java. Before Eclipse, it was NetBeans. Now, NetBeans 4 takes on the latest Java 5.0 features. It also incoporates improvements in a number of ...