The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

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 ...

Oracle started the process of donating NetBeans to the Apache Foundation almost two years ago, with the first major code drop occurring almost 12 months ago. Since then, a huge amount of engineering ...

I have found NetBeans Java Hints to be extremely useful in Java development. In this blog post I look at NetBeans Java Hints that I deem indispensable in Java development. I will be using NetBeans 6.9 ...

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The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

NetBeans 8.1 is now generally available, the open source IDE's community announced. This upgrade of the popular open source Java IDE supports developers working with Java SE 8, Java SE Embedded 8, and ...

Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, and its popularity is continuing to grow. With the wide range of development tools available, it can be challenging to choose the ...

In my Netbeans Platform based application there is a special dialog to select some kind of modules and sub-modules. This dialog uses an OutlineView with one column and a CheckRenderDataProvider to ...

This project is an simple implementation of a hotel management system run by a receptionist in hotel. This project is developed using programming language JAVA as a frontend and for the backend, SQL ...