History suggests that if an open-source project is designed to leverage the energy of the development community and offers an architecture that supports virtually unlimited change and adaptability, it ...

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 ...

The NetBeans community has released the latest build of its open source, Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) with, among other new features, a dual-licensing scheme. NetBeans 6.0 Beta ...

Earlier this month, NetBeans announced its Innovator Grants program designed to award "ideas on how to improve the NetBeans Project." Ten programmers or programming teams will earn grants of $11,500 ...

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 ...

I am looking to convert a Netbeans project to an Eclipse project. Unfortunately the project must truly open and be managed by Eclipse in this situation and I cannot rely on an external ANT script for ...

Sun Microsystems laid out a plan on Thursday to bolster its Java tools and make them easier to link to other software. The plan centers on the company's NetBeans project, an open-source effort to ...