History suggests that if an open-source project is designed to leverage the energy of the development community and offers an architecture that supports virtually unlimited change and adaptability, it ...

The JavaOne 2012 conference materials listed this presentation as “Project EASEL: Developing and Managing HTML5 in a Java World,” but the title slide posted as we wait for the session to begin is ...

The company plans to grab a bigger slice of Java tools business by overhauling its NetBeans software and by improving how tools and code work together. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...

I am looking to convert a Netbeans project to an Eclipse project. Unfortunately the project must truly open and be managed by Eclipse in this situation and I cannot rely on an external ANT script for ...

BEA Systems’ decision to offer its WebLogic Workshop run-time framework under an open source format, through its Project Beehive effort, may prompt the company to reconsider its current stance of not ...

Sun Microsystems laid out a plan on Thursday to bolster its Java tools and make them easier to link to other software. The plan centers on the company's NetBeans project, an open-source effort to ...