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 ...
NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...