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 ...

When I type the space after “for”, I’m only typing in Java code, but NetBeans interprets it as me meaning that I want the code template for a for loop iterating on an integer to be generated.

The redesigned NetBeans Profiler in version 8.1 will be of particular interest to Java developers, as will performance enhancements in Java search tools; new features in code completion (IntelliSense) ...

NetBeans version 7.0 offers Java 7 and improved Swing ... The IDE will also come with a set of help tools that will suggest ways that a new Java 7 construct could improve a body of code.

Netbeans gives programmers and Web designers the ability to create Java and JSP servlets, which run customized code in a user's browser. Servlets are mainly used as widgets on websites that run ...

The NetBeans IDE allows you to manage Java programs more easily than is possible using a basic text editor. One of its strengths is its code-formatting tools. These tools allow you to format and ...

The 1st code donation, i.e., the NetBeans Platform + the Java SE tooling, which includes the new Jigsaw and JShell features, comprises around 45,000 files (around 4 million lines of code) to be ...

It took two and a half years, but the NetBeans Java-based IDE has finally graduated to Top-Level Project (TLP) status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The popular open source development ...

Java experts have questioned Oracle's support for Java, but Oracle swears it's fully behind Java Enterprise Edition and NetBeans. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...