Sun releases developer tools for NetBeans Two new packs for the open-source NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the Web and for a range of OSes.

Two new packs for the open-source NetBeans IDE aim to make it easier to work on applications for the Web and for a range of OSes.

They include NetBeans’ advanced EJB and Web services support and greater application server backing, as well the packaging of all NetBeans developer tools into a single IDE, Sun said.

Web and application developers are facing continuing pressure for efficiency and are seeking to adopt the latest standards and advancements in the Java language and platform. To address this need, ...

Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE.

Web development using NetBeans is really quite slick nowadays. The feature that works best is the ability to right-click a JSP file and select “Run File”. If everything’s set up correctly, your ...

Further extending advanced HTML5 development features to Java EE and PHP application development, NetBeans IDE 7.4 introduces support for developing HTML5 and JavaScript user interfaces on-device.

NetBeans 8 has a slew of new features that aim to please the modern Java web developer, as well as embedded and mobile developers.

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 ...

NetBeans 4.1 has been released for download, under the Sun Public License, and Netbeans director Tim Cramer says cellular application developers are finally hearing its call.

A full feature list for NetBeans 5.5 and the code for the free, open-source software is available on Sun's NetBeans Web site. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun concurrently released five add-on packs ...