Sun Microsystems and the netbeans.org tools organization on Thursday are releasing a road map for the open source NetBeans tools technology, outlining advances to extend development for the Web and ...

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 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 ...

NetBeans 3.6, released last month by the NetBeans.org open-source community, offers Java developers an attractive and capable programming environment that features a native look and feel on a variety ...

Version 7.0 of the NetBeans IDE, set for release this Spring, will not support Ruby on Rails, the NetBeans community announced on Friday. In an open message posted on the NetBeans.org Web site, the ...