This idea is intuitive to anyone who has ever written any application that includes interaction with users. Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most ...

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).

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.

Oracle wants to dump its NetBeans Java integrated development environment on the Apache Software Foundation.

Hundreds of attendees for Sun's fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0.

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.

With the source code written, the JUnit-based unit tests written, and the NetBeans Java Application project set up as shown above, it is almost trivial to run the unit tests.