A response on that thread refers to the NetBeans Java Hint Module Tutorial. Looking over that tutorial reminds me that the approach outlined in this post and available in NetBeans 7.1 is certainly ...

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 ...

For the desktop, NetBeans IDE 7.1, released Thursday, updated the software’s Matisse editor, which now uses the latest version of the Java Swing GUI (graphical user interface) library.

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...