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 Apache Software Foundation has released the producton version of its NetBeans Version 9.0 IDE, with support for the Java Module System introduced with Java 9 last year. Modules comprised the ...

The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

NetBeans 8 contains a number of Java 8 enhancements, including code analyzer and editor enhancements for profiles, lambdas, streams and method references.

Oracle claims NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the next-generation Java platform.

NetBeans IDE 7.2 provides a significantly improved performance and coding experience, with new static code analysis capabilities in the Java Editor and smarter project scanning.

The Apache Software Foundation has released a release candidate of its NetBeans Version 9.0 IDE, with support for the Java Module System introduced with Java 9 last year. Modules comprised the ...

Whilst the IDE doesn’t offer as many nice Java-coding features as some of the other IDEs, Sun’s approach is to provide powerful drag and drop, WYSIWYG-like development capabilities.