With its newly updated NetBeans Java IDE Oracle has focused on updating the tools and libraries so they can be used to build more sophisticated user interfaces. “There are a lot of interesting new ...

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 ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass says both NetBeans and Eclipse IDE are usable for Java Enterprise Edition (EE) Web service development * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses most common ...

Rival open-source efforts to simplify development of Java software are inching closer together to battle a common enemy: Microsoft. Two open-source development-tool projects--Eclipse, backed by IBM, ...