This idea is intuitive to anyone who has ever written any application that includes interaction with users. Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most ...

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 ...

The NetBeans platform enables developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as with PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, and C/C++. NetBeans IDE ...

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.

Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.

At the other end of the spectrum is J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). This version of NetBeans has enhanced support for two-tier Web application development. Java 5.0 includes a number of ...

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 ...

Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).