In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed ...

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It took two and a half years, but the NetBeans Java-based IDE has finally graduated to Top-Level Project (TLP) status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The popular open source development ...

When it comes to the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) platforms, both Eclipse and Apache NetBeans have held top spots for decades, especially in the Java community. Eclipse and ...

I wrote about the NetBeans hint “Overridable Method Call in Constructor” in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called from ...

We’re starting a Java EE Web services project. Is NetBeans or Eclipse a better choice of integrated development environment (IDE) for such a project? Both NetBeans and Eclipse IDE are usable for Java ...

The annual JavaOne conference, which kicks off on Sunday (Sept. 18), looks to be chock-a-block with sessions, workshops and keynotes, and I'm expecting significant news from the Oracle Java team and ...