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 ...

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 ...

The NetBeans developers recognized that the more they incorporated open and standard technologies into their project, the more freedom and flexibility it would give to its intended users. In fact, one ...

The release will promote a stronger open source Java ecosystem by making it easier to share NetBeans code with other projects, said Sun's NetBeans Community Manager Bruno Souza. The CDDL, developed by ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

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 ...

Open source licenses Each of the Java projects covered in this series is subject to an open source license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

NetBeans has been promoted to a top-level Apache project following its donation to the Incubator in 2016. The community has since delivered several nominal features.

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...