Gosling, in a Facebook post, agreed. "NetBeans is moving to Apache!Oracle has decided to open up NetBeans even more, so that folks like me can more easily contribute to our favorite IDE.

NetBeans 8.1 is now generally available, the open source IDE's community announced. This upgrade of the popular open source Java IDE supports developers working with Java SE 8, Java SE Embedded 8, and ...

There has been a long-standing battle in the Java community over which Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is best. From the TSS Readership Survey, the two most popular choices are Eclipse and ...