In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

So, this quarter/semester, I am taking a class at my university dealing with developing Client Database applications. The first part of the course concentrates on using java technology( specifically, ...

Oracle started the process of donating NetBeans to the Apache Foundation almost two years ago, with the first major code drop occurring almost 12 months ago. Since then, a huge amount of engineering ...

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community last week announced the general availability of the latest version of the free, open-source NetBeans IDE. NetBeans 5.5 comes with new features aimed at ...

I just had an intriguing analyst briefing with some NetBeans folks at Sun Microsystems, and I'm beginning to think the public discussion on the Eclipse-NetBeans thing (or is it mostly the SWT-Swing ...

I recently posted an early preview of my thoughts on David R. Heffelfinger‘s book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. In this post, I provide a more detailed review of this book. In this section of ...

NetBeans 6.1 Beta version 1, released this month, provides a lot of new features for developers. The solution is a free, open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Java desktop ...

Bruno Souza, NetBeans community manager, has announced that Sun is considering releasing NetBeans 6.0 under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception, in addition to the current CDDL license. A move like ...

Focusing on open source efforts, Sun Microsystems officials this week provided informational updates on the NetBeans IDE and GlassFish application server, noting that NetBeans will have an SOA bent ...

NetBeans support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is something that at least one Canadian-based enterprise development firm is anxiously awaiting, as Sun Microsystems Inc. recently rolled out the ...