When Oracle "donated" NetBeans to the open source community, many thought that the future looked bleak, but now more than two years on it has graduated to being a full Apache project. What does the ...

NetBeansIDE 3.6, a major revision to the open source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing and debugging and backing for J2EE 1.4. The platform is intended to enable development of ...

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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 ...