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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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The NetBeans community has announced a release candidate ...

The NetBeans open source platform championed by Sun Microsystems has less industry support than rival Eclipse, which enjoys the backing of vendors such as IBM and Oracle. But Sun on Monday is ...

Having already licensed its Java platform under the GNU General Public License (GPL), Sun Microsystems now is considering doing the same thing for the NetBeans open source application development ...

Although originally built to develop enterprise Java apps, the NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment) is increasingly being rigged to help developers use the lighter weight HTML5 and ...

NetBeans 6.1 Beta version 1, released this month, provides a lot of new features for developers. The solution is a free, open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Java desktop ...

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community last week announced the general availability of the latest version of the free, open-source NetBeans IDE. NetBeans 5.5 comes with new features aimed at ...