NetBeans IDE

I can almost not believe that it has been a month since the release of NetBeans 7.2! Time flies indeed. This week I decided to download the latest development build to experience first hand what the NetBeans development team has been up to since. As soon as I opened the first Java source file in … Read more

Sometimes a small change in an application can make a pretty big difference in user experience. A colleague of mine installed the NetBeans IDE 7.2 yesterday. And after a while he commented that you can now select multiple Maven-based module projects and choose the build action from the context menu! It might seem like an … Read more

NetBeans 7.2 has just been released and can now be downloaded from the official download page! 😀 For more information about the new and noteworthy features in this release, have a look at this wiki page. Edit: Also read Geertjan’s blog post about the Top 10 New Features in NetBeans IDE 7.2.

Every so often I manage to do something really silly in the GUI builder, which causes unexpected behaviour (and exceptions) when the form is actually executed. And today I realised again that it is indeed sometimes important which step you choose to associate a piece of code with. For example, accidentally trying to set a … Read more