I’m a big fan of NetBeans’s hints supports as proven by my blog posts on Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code, Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom Hint, ...

Anyone who has read any of my posts on NetBeans knows that there are numerous features of NetBeans that I really like. Recently, however, I found myself becoming increasingly irritated with a ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

One of the nice things about NetBeans – well okay, one of the nice things about any modern IDE for any programming language these days – is the automatic code completion feature. The way it works is ...