Last Wednesday’s post was about Oracle’s choice (or failure to make one) about which of the various IDEs it’s created/inherited to support. It’s an important issue, but one largely of interest to the ...

Company to offer free edition of its IntelliJ IDEA technology alongside commercial version JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview ...

Java integrated development environments (IDE) are one of the most-used application development tools in corporate development. They are also among the most capable developer products on the market.

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

i am in the process of choosing a java IDE and compiler, and im being very careful. because i know that when i decide on one, i will never want to change. what do you guys use? the debugger is the ...

i can't make a suggestion (beyond emacs), but yes, you'll need a compiler in both cases. the java source has to be compiled into bytecode .class files both for standalone apps and web applets.