With its newly updated NetBeans Java IDE Oracle has focused on updating the tools and libraries so they can be used to build more sophisticated user interfaces. “There are a lot of interesting new ...

I recently posted an early preview of my thoughts on David R. Heffelfinger‘s book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. In this post, I provide a more detailed review of this book. In this section of ...

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In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

Oracle has released JavaFX 2.0, a major rewrite of the company's Java platform for creating and deploying rich Internet applications (RIAs) that behave consistently across a wide variety of connected ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The NetBeans community has announced the release of ...

The Java community has no shortage of IDEs for active development. With so many available options, an organization's final choice will come down to development needs and preferences. There are more ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...