Leveraging the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and the M2Eclipse (M2) plugin in the same project has compelling benefits for the Java web developer.... more »

Find out how to leverage the Ruby and Rails support in NetBeans 6.0, and then learn some techniques for deploying Rails applications on a Linux server efficiently.... more »

The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.... more »

It really surprised me, that Netbeans's editor was higher rated than Eclipse's. I prefer the Netbeans editing experience, but my opinion isn't really objective :-). I just like Netbeans's editor more, without knowing the reason. The small built-in wizards like alt+insert make the coding experience more fluent - but this is really my subjective view. Most of the developers prefer Eclipse, because of the editing experience (they often miss in Netbeans e.g. the "Link With Editor" button). On the other hand, Eclipse was higher rated in the Enterprise support, what I really cannot see. Netbeans comes already with really good built-in Java EE 5 support.... more »

I would like to know if FileDialog is planned to be fixed in Java 7 to contain all the features of the native FileDialog. I couln't find anything in the release notes of Java 7. I've talked about this over and over but no one seems to answer. http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=233718 Can anyone from the AWT/Swing team give us a status please? Guys if you're interested in improving FileDialog vote for this bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6192906 ... more »

GWT Conference Just as Microsoft was brushing aside claims that Volta, its latest .NET programming toolkit, is a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) clone, Google has disclosed how it plans to open the gap on rivals with the next release of its popular AJAX toolkit.... more »

The first milestone release of WSIT is now available, and this blog will show readers how to develop a WebService from scratch using the Netbeans 5.5 Beta release and add Security to the WebService. In particular we will show how to enable SecureConversation for the service.... more »

NetBeans IDE 6.0 was released yesterday. TheServerSide.com has generated some discussion and Charles Ditzel presents a nice overview in his blog. But there are many people behind NetBeans, of course, each working on tooling relating to specific areas of the IDE—Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, Ruby, C/C++, the NetBeans Platform, the web site, the documentation, and the the evangelism team.... more »

We've got an exciting development bubbling that I hope to be able to announce in full detail at FOSS.IN in Bangalore on Friday when I speak there.... more »

Java has powerful debugging facilities. Most of you that use debugging have seen that when stepping over a JRE class, no variables, members and values are available. This is because JRE distributions are (even beta's) compiled without including debug info. This is because of preserving memory and improving performance of default Java program execution. ... more »