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Eclipse and NetBeans are the most popular IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). Most of us agree these two are widely used in the programming world, especially while working on Java. If you ...

In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

NetBeans 8.2 became generally available last week, marking the last release under Oracle's stewardship. Big O's proposal to hand off the open source development environment, tooling platform and ...

In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations. I agree that we all need to give and take a ...

NetBeans is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE), tooling platform, and application framework. It's written in Java and is primarily for creating Java programs. It also, however, ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 ...

After months of regular milestones and community feedback, Sun has released a Beta version of NetBeans 6.0. NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written for programmers who use Java ...

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 ...