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Released: NetBeans IDE 7.3 with New HTML5 Support!

NetBeans IDE 7.3 empowers developers to create and debug rich web and mobile applications using the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 standards....

0 replies - 4140 views - 02/21/13 by Tinu Awopetu in Articles

Java 8: From PermGen to Metaspace

As you may be aware, the JDK 8 Early Access is now available for download. This allows Java developers to experiment with some of the new language...

6 replies - 32485 views - 02/11/13 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

Java/NetBeans: Overridable Method Call in Constructor

I wrote about the NetBeans hint "Overridable Method Call in Constructor" in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. In this post, I...

0 replies - 3277 views - 11/04/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

NetBeans 7.2: Generating (Introduce) Local Extensions

I have already blogged on two refactoring options NetBeans 7.2 provides in my aptly named posts NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As...

0 replies - 2916 views - 09/04/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As Builder

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch's Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague's copy to browse it and consider purchasing a...

0 replies - 4317 views - 08/13/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Installing and Configuring NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 and the Java JDK 1.7 on OS X

Recently Oracle released the JDK 1.7 for OS X (download here). This is a JDK release as of the time of this article and a consumer version of the JRE 1.7...

1 replies - 9072 views - 05/23/12 by Chad Lung in Articles

NetBeans Usability Tips

Java IDEs have come a long way since the days of JBuilder (though JBuilder seemed like a welcome advance at the time). Today's Java IDEs (such as...

1 replies - 8237 views - 05/21/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Specifying Appropriate NetBeans JDK Source Release

NetBeans uses its projects' settings for javac.source (and javac.target) in more ways than simply enforcing javac's use of the -source and -target. In...

0 replies - 2926 views - 05/15/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles