Netbeans —
Netbeans, the free, open source, software development environment from Sun Microsystems, has just reached version 6.1 (see the Netbeans 6.1 release notes for detailed info). If you’re one of those that hasn’t looked seriously at Netbeans in a while, I think it’s worth another look: it’s now a genuinely world-class IDE (for best results, make [...]
So, you’ve seen the news - Sun Microsystems has just released Java SE 6, and you’ve installed it.
Now, with Java 6 installed, you want to see how it runs. So, how about a simple “Hello World” applet? Feel free to try this one. It doesn’t do anything interesting - it’s just a test. [...]
Back in January of this year, I wrote that graphical IDEs were, after many years, finally ready for use by top talent developers. Over the last few months, we’ve been doing a lot of development work in both Java and C#.NET. In terms of IDEs, we’ve been using Netbeans 5.5 for Java, and [...]