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 ...

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...

Java experts have questioned Oracle's support for Java, but Oracle swears it's fully behind Java Enterprise Edition and NetBeans.

Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.

News New Version of Free, Open Source NetBeans IDE Features Java 8 Support By John K. Waters March 26, 2014 On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes ...

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.