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 ...

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 ...

Last Wednesday’s post was about Oracle’s choice (or failure to make one) about which of the various IDEs it’s created/inherited to support. It’s an important issue, but one largely of interest to the ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

JetBrains is shipping version 9 of its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, this time offering both commercial and open source versions. The commercial edition, called Ultimate, features a set of tools and ...