NetBeans has had a long and storied history. In this article, Geertjan Wielenga goes over some of that history to explain NetBeans’ unique features, as well as some tips and tricks to make your app development even easier.

Over the past week, the NetBeans team has communicated to the community, via its mailing lists, that NetBeans IDE 8.2 […]

Bruno Lowagie, the original developer of iText, talks about the Java PDF library’s expansion, the upcoming release of iText 7 and what happens next.

If you ask Olaf Molenveld, CEO and co-founder of Amsterdam-based Magnetic.io, about containers and microservices, he will say they are a perfect match. Although complications do exist, Very Awesome Microservices Platform (VAMP) aims to iron them out.

Announced at JavaOne and OpenWorld last year, and open sourced today, Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (Oracle JET) is an enterprise-ready JavaScript solution for developers working on client-side applications.

The JavaScript ecosystem is still messed up and JDK 9 modularity is real. Geertjan Wielenga reports on the key takeaways for Java programmers at the recent Devoxx 2015 conference in Antwerp.

Full-blown applications programmed for your browser – that’s where it’s at, right now, says JAX London speaker Geertjan Wielenga in this sneak preview from the upcoming JAX Magazine issue.

Standardisation, automated tasks and “content negotiation” –– there are plenty of reasons to use REST for exposing data. Geertjan Wielenga shows us how to get started using NetBeans in a few easy steps.

Raspberry Pi experts from around the world talk us through the nitty-gritty of Java on the Raspberry Pi.

Create HTML5 front-end directly within your Java EE 7 application with NetBeans IDE 7.4 – shortening the development cycle from 10 minutes to about 5.