Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE, released Wednesday. “The main focus for this release has been ...

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

I have some java source code i need to recompile but i'm brand new to java and would like to use netbeans as my IDE. The IBM Developerworks Java section is very good. Unless you have a correctly ...

In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations. I agree that we all need to give and take a ...

Eclipse is generally recommended. (Personally I think it blows but many here like it) I think there is also netBeans. Those are the two free java IDEs I know. A quick google search will bring them up.