The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen ...

The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

NetBeans. Along with Eclipse and IntelliJ, Netbeans rounds out the list of the big three Java IDEs. It began in the 1990s, which makes the IDE almost as old as Java itself. NetBeans is free, open ...