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NetBeans drives a wedge between Sun and Oracle
News The companies differ on whether Oracle supports Sun's NetBeans software, which is used to develop Java server applications. At the joint event Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive, trumpeted what he called "a big Oracle endorsement of NetBeans".
[January 26, 2006, 8:50]
Sun updates Java, GlassFish and NetBeans
News Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment, both supporting the new version of Java.
[December 14, 2009, 11:42]
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News Sun on Wednesday introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment , with expanded support for web and Java software development. The highlights of NetBeans IDE 6.5 is the addition of support for the PHP scripting...
[November 20, 2008, 14:03]
Sun releases new NetBeans developer tools
News Sun announced the availability of two new sets of developer tools for NetBeans IDE on Wednesday. The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, open-source environment that lets developers create cross-platform software...
[December 7, 2006, 17:38]
UK university makes NetBeans educational
News Sun and the University of Kent on Wednesday launched a new version of the NetBeans developer environment aimed at students, and integrating an educational project called BlueJ. The BlueJ edition of the NetBeans IDE is designed to give students an...
[September 22, 2006, 11:15]
SDE for NetBeans
Downloads SDE for NetBeans is a UML CASE tool totally integrated with NetBeans. It combines the power of UML modeling facilities and NetBeans. You can draw UML diagrams in NetBeans, generate Java code, reverse engineering Java code to class diagrams and...
[November 20, 2008, 2:07]
Oracle details fate of Sun software
News Oracle will continue delivering Sun's open-source GlassFish and NetBeans products upon the completion of its acquisition of Sun, according to a recently published document. In the updated overview of the proposed acquisition — first announced in...
[November 3, 2009, 7:10]
Sun wants Java to share more
News The plan centres on the company's NetBeans project, which is an open-source effort to create software that allows several different Java development tools to snap together within a single programming application.
[December 5, 2003, 10:30]
JRuby and the Java Platform
White Papers It shows how to set up JRuby, explains the basics of using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans integrated development environment (NetBeans IDE), and provides links to help a person learn more.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
IBM and Sun bury the Java hatchet
News Both Eclipse and NetBeans distribute their IDEs as open-source code, allowing developers to write plug-in modules to add new features to the toolset. Two open-source development-tool projects -- Eclipse, backed by IBM, and NetBeans, initiated by...
[March 28, 2002, 11:06]
Sun drops out of Eclipse
News In addition to dropping the plan to join Eclipse, Sun said on Wednesday that it will no longer try to merge the Sun-sponsored NetBeans.org open-source Java tools project with Eclipse. Java founder and steward Sun decided with Eclipse that...
[December 4, 2003, 8:15]
Sun pushes Eclipse towards unity
News Sun also reiterated its previous decision not to join Eclipse because that would mean abandoning its NetBeans open-source Java tools initiative, which forms the basis for Sun's commercial products. NetBeans serves largely the same function, but has...
[January 30, 2004, 16:05]
Scoop: Sun kills Java tools
News One source close to Sun says the company's next purchase will be NetBeans, a Prague-based startup that offers a Java Integrated Development Environment running on Solaris, Windows NT and Linux. NetBeans comes bundled with RedHat Linux 6.0, and the...
[September 24, 1999, 9:03]
Sun takes Project Rave to next level
News The Sun-sponsored NetBeans open-source project is also planning changes to the NetBeans toolset, which Sun uses as the basis for other commercial tool offerings. NetBeans version 3.6, which is targeted for release early next year, will add...
[December 3, 2003, 10:40]
Eclipse Java tools will swallow Tiger
News Eclipse has generated some controversy, in part because of its attempts to steer Java programmers from Sun Microsystems' own open-source Java project called NetBeans. Eclipse and NetBeans also remain at odds over the choice of a tool for designing...
[May 29, 2003, 12:20]
The view from the floor at JavaOne
News So I expect Oracle will definitely want to keep Netbeans going, under that name or another. I think we will see Oracle build out their DB management tools on the Netbeans platform, and we will see a tight integration to be able to write the code...
[June 4, 2009, 16:36]
Java players want tools to work together
News Sun executives said Sun would bear too much of the burden of bridging the technical differences between Eclipse and Sun's own open-source tool technology, called NetBeans. Sun also did not want to abandon the NetBeans developer community, company...
[January 6, 2004, 15:05]
Open-source group broadens its reach
News Although Sun has raised the possibility of linking its own open-source development tool project, called NetBeans, to Eclipse, the two open-source projects will likely remain distinct. I expect, however, that Eclipse will continue to grow faster...
[December 16, 2002, 15:44]
Ubuntu lets loose 'Feisty Fawn'
News Other components already are open-source software, including the Glassfish project for Java Enterprise Edition, a collection of extensions for running Java on servers, and NetBeans, a Java programming environment.
[April 20, 2007, 15:45]
Sun and Intel pair up on Xeon-based servers
News Also at the news conference, Intel is expected to endorse Sun's Java software and its NetBeans programming tools. Solaris, Java and NetBeans all are open-source software projects. Sun is expected to resume its use of Intel's Xeon processors in its...
[January 22, 2007, 7:55]
