The Sun Microsystems-led NetBeans developer community this week released a beta version of the NetBeans 5.0 open source IDE, with enhancements for client development based on Java. The general release ...

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Sun Microsystems announced the availability of two new sets of developer tools for NetBeans IDE on Wednesday. The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, open-source environment ...

Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday. Version 6.0 ...

What's the most downloaded plug-in from the NetBeans Web site? If you're not a user of this popular IDE, you might be surprised to learn that it's iReport, a tool for an open source reporting and ...

Software developers are creatures of habit, so when it comes to getting them to change their ways, like moving away from Eclipse or IntelliJ and taking the time to download the latest NetBeans' IDE, ...

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 ...

The NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) is open source, modular, standards-based and integrated. Because it is written in the Java language, it will run on any platform with a Java ...

Eclipse and NetBeans are the most popular IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). Most of us agree these two are widely used in the programming world, especially while working on Java. If you ...

Sun Microsystems laid out a plan on Thursday to bolster its Java tools and make them easier to link to other software. The plan centers on the company's NetBeans project, an open-source effort to ...

Two new packs for the open-source NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the Web and for a range of OSes. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...