I specifically discussed this approach using NetBeans 7 to “modernize” Java code bases to newer releases of Java in the blog post Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code.

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints , I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are ...

Source code for Java already is available and has been for 10 years, he said. The current model for Java is close to an open source model, Gosling said. Java developers, meanwhile, want to preserve ...