The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

NetBeans uses its projects' settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac 's use of the -source and -target .

Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs (JEP 330), which enhances the Java launcher to a program supplied as a single file of Java source code, including usage from within a script by means of shebang ...