Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).

The Java IDE market is currently a four-way battlefield between Eclipse, IntelliJ, JetBrains‚ NetBeans, and Oracle JDeveloper. (Borland’s announcement that it is getting rid of JBuilder and ...