The crux of the NetBeans 5.5 update is compliance with Java EE 5, which was released in May. The integrated development environment (IDE) for Java application development now offers a host of tools ...

The NetBeans IDE allows you to manage Java programs more easily than is possible using a basic text editor. One of its strengths is its code-formatting tools. These tools allow you to format and ...

In my previous blog post, I demonstrated how to remove the annoying template instruction comment added to all NetBeans-generated files. Peter Hull pointed out that one could also use this for a ...