The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

NetBeans version 7.0 offers Java 7 and improved Swing integration Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s ...

NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written for programmers who use Java, Ruby, C/C++, and other languages. How does it match up against Eclipse and other developer tools?

I decided to use Netbeans as my IDE mainly because it seems like GUI creation is fairly easy.<BR><BR>I was playing around with the standard Java Desktop Application project template and I just ran ...

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 ...

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 ...

JRuby, the implementation of Ruby for Java, which is run by two Sun engineers, is included with the NetBeans Ruby support, allowing developers to use Ruby on Rails with existing Java code.

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 ...