Looking to make microservices development easier? According to Java Champion Ivar Grimstad, MVC 1.0 and the Java EE Security API do exactly that.

Hundreds of attendees for Sun's fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0.

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).

At the other end of the spectrum is J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). This version of NetBeans has enhanced support for two-tier Web application development. Java 5.0 includes a number of ...