Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...

Further extending advanced HTML5 development features to Java EE and PHP application development, NetBeans IDE 7.4 introduces support for developing HTML5 and JavaScript user interfaces on-device.

NetBeans is widely seen as the most popular Java IDE after Eclipse, according to Al Hilwa, an IDC analyst who covers application development software.

NetBeans IDE 7.2 provides a significantly improved performance and coding experience, with new static code analysis capabilities in the Java Editor and smarter project scanning.

With NetBeans 7, developers will get the chance to test out the new version of Java, formally named the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 7.

Sun Microsystems has announced plans to discontinue Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools, encouraging users to migrate to NetBeans.

Hundreds of attendees for Sun's fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0.

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.

I wrote about the NetBeans hint "Overridable Method Call in Constructor" in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints . In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called ...