In this post, I look focus on a different set of seven NetBeans hints that may not be as “indispensable” as the first set, but which I have found to be very useful in moving existing code and ...

I’m a big fan of NetBeans’s hints supports as proven by my blog posts on Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code, Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom ...

"Java developers aren't just writing Java code anymore." James Gosling, the Father of Java and a longtime fan of NetBeans, calls version 8 "a landmark release." "It has always been the tool with the ...

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 ...

The release also brings other Java-related improvements, such as Maven 3 support, JUnit 4.8.2 integration, and editor enhancements that include code completion and hint options.

Code completion is well-known and loved by Java developers - every modern Java IDE provides it. However, in Ruby creating good completion is a very difficult task because types are not declared in ...

Java Studio Enterprise 7, which is based on the NetBeans software, adds a modeling tool based, in turn, on the Unified Modeling Language 2.0 standard and collaborative features that allow ...

There has been a long-standing battle in the Java community over which Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is best. From the TSS Readership Survey, the two most popular choices are Eclipse and ...

NetBeans 6.0 sports a brand new source code editor that brings it up to par with the editor in the Eclipse IDE.

One of the nice things about NetBeans – well okay, one of the nice things about any modern IDE for any programming language these days – is the automatic code completion feature. The way it works is ...