Sun Releases NetBeams 5 IDE as Open Source

Sun Microsoftsystems together with the NetBeans community has announced the general availability of the Java based open-source NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software tolls via download at www.netbeans.org. NetBeans 5.0 IDE provides comprehensive support for building Java SE, Java ME applications and includes a variaty of unique new features and significant enhancements such as NetBeans GUI Builder (formerly Project Matiss), that differentiates it from all other developer tools…