Developers will be able to test-drive the next-generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday. “The main ...

NetBeans, the open-source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages. As with other Sun projects, though, ...

Sun Microsystems to support users of NetBeans IDE 5, the open-source tool which sports a new GUI-building program. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies.

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...