Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

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.

Oracle also announced the availability of the NetBeans Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) 7.1 Beta. NetBeans is a free, open source IDE for creating enterprise, Web, desktop, and mobile ...

Download and install the free NetBeans IDE for your operating system from Netbeans.org (link in Resources). Run NetBeans. When the IDE starts, click "File" on the main menu and select "New Project." ...

The NetBeans platform enables developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as with PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, and C/C++. NetBeans IDE ...

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 ...

NetBeans IDE 7.1 is a free, open-source IDE available for Windows, Mac, Solaris and Linux that enables developers to rapidly create Web, enterprise, desktop and mobile applications for the Java ...

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 ...