NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

Oracle has proposed contributing the NetBeans IDE to the Apache Software Foundation via the Apache Incubator Project.

The NetBeans platform enables developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as with PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, and C/C++. NetBeans IDE ...

For example, the platform, ide, and java clusters were reintegrated in NetBeans 9.0, considered the initial Apache release of NetBeans, and included support for Java 9 and 10.

NetBeans is making progress with its transition to the Apache Foundation, including a major new release.

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 ...

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 ...

Support for Ant, which an Apache kit for building complex applications, also has been improved to offer better ease of use. Version 3.6 also offers better support for CVS (Concurrent Versions ...