The latest build of the NetBeans IDE, NetBeans 7.2 Release Candidate 1, is now available for download featuring performance upgrades and other enhancements.

Oracle claims NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the next-generation Java platform.

Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment (IDE) associated first ...

Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks.

There are many reasons to download the NetBeans IDE and give Oracle's open source IDE another try, including Node.js support and increased efficiency.

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.

NetBeans is well-known as a popular and feature-rich Java IDE that was open-sourced by Sun Microsystems in 2000.

NetBeans IDE 3.6, a major revision to the open-source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing and debugging and backing for J2EE 1.4. The platform is intended to enable development ...

Sun Microsystems announced NetBeans Profiler Milestone 11, the latest release of its Java app profiler, and an add-on to the upcoming open-source NetBeans IDE release 5.

Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).