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In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

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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 ...

NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

The NetBeans IDE allows you to manage Java programs more easily than is possible using a basic text editor. One of its strengths is its code-formatting tools. These tools allow you to format and ...

In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations. I agree that we all need to give and take a ...

A "flat" file represents a particular database file used to store data for database applications. While meant for database programs, you may include these files in Java projects constructed with ...

NetBeans is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE), tooling platform, and application framework. It's written in Java and is primarily for creating Java programs. It also, however, ...

NetBeans IDE 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 ...