I welcomed the opportunity to review Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7 for several reasons. First, I frequently use NetBeans 7 and look forward to learning new things about this IDE.

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...

Support for Java 7 standard edition (SE) is the focus of the new toolset and Oracle claims it is the first open-source IDE to support the JDK 7 preview.

Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).

Open source Java development environment NetBeans has achieved top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation. NetBeans is the integrated development environment (IDE) associated first ...