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 introduces ...

Project Lombok is a small library that can be used to reduce the amount of boilerplate Java code that is commonly written for Java classes. Project Lombok does this via annotations that can be added ...

Sun has released the first, early fruits of a project to let developers use scripting languages from inside its NetBeans IDE, a move that could improve productivity for NetBeans users and, Sun hopes, ...

Apache has released the latest version of the NetBeans cross-platform IDE. Version 30 updates the minimum Java version required to build, test, and run the IDE to JDK 21. There are also updated build ...