Anyone who has read any of my posts on NetBeans knows that there are numerous features of NetBeans that I really like. Recently, however, I found myself becoming increasingly irritated with a ...

My last post (NetBeans 7 and Software Quality Environment) focused on using the NetBeans 7 Plugins Manager to acquire Software Quality Environment (SQE) and install its four plugins for four software ...

The NetBeans IDE allows you to manage Java programs more easily than is possible using a basic text editor. One of its strengths is its code-formatting tools. These tools allow you to format and ...

Bruno Souza, NetBeans community manager, has announced that Sun is considering releasing NetBeans 6.0 under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception, in addition to the current CDDL license. A move like ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Yesterday I mentioned NetBeans’ auto-popup code completion window, which I was forced to disable in order to save my sanity. I guess that after criticizing something, I should try to suggest something ...

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 ...

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 ...