Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment (IDE) associated first ...

Java IDEs have improved steadily over the last few years. Products from IBM, Borland, and Sun show just how far they've come. Java IDEs are one of the most-used app dev tools in corporate development.

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

The announcements come as Sun gears up for a major Sun ONE software launch--including a new version of its Sun ONE Application Server and an integrated software platform--on June 19 in San Francisco.

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 ...

Company to offer free edition of its IntelliJ IDEA technology alongside commercial version JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview ...