Consumers will soon be able to download the JRE for Mac OS X from Java.com, just as they do for all other operating systems, and Oracle will provide auto-updates for Mac OS X at the same time as for ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...

NetBeans 5.0 is a substantial upgrade to what was already a very solid IDE. This release reveals many new features, enhancements, and a slight repositioning, as Sun attempts to shine the spotlight on ...

Writing code manually to create a GUI application is no less than a nightmare for any developer. These days almost all development IDEs come packaged with a GUI builder. NetBeans IDE too provides you ...

Oracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Update 6 (Java SE 7 Update 6) and JavaFX 2.2, as well as the first release of JavaFX Scene Builder. With this release, ...