A response on that thread refers to the NetBeans Java Hint Module Tutorial. Looking over that tutorial reminds me that the approach outlined in this post and available in NetBeans 7.1 is certainly ...

JDK 7 Upgrade Hints NetBeans 7.x offers several hints related to Java 7 syntax and language support in the “JDK 1.5 and later” category of hints.

In this tutorial, I'll walk through building a simple Web service with NetBeans 7. Let's see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support the spec have come.

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...

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 ...

With NetBeans 7, developers will get the chance to test out the new version of Java, formally named the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 7.

Eclipse isn't the only open-source development tool for Java. Before Eclipse, it was NetBeans. Now, NetBeans 4 takes on the latest Java 5.0 features. It also incoporates improvements in a number ...

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 ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

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.