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 ...

If you’re faced with creating a Swing-based wizard from scratch, you’ll want to know about Tim Boudreau’s Wizard project. This installment of Jeff Friesen’s Open source Java projects series gets you ...

The company plans to grab a bigger slice of Java tools business by overhauling its NetBeans software and by improving how tools and code work together. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, both ...

A "flat" file represents a particular database file used to store data for database applications. While meant for database programs, you may include these files in Java projects constructed with ...

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 ...