Sun also said it and the GlassFish community are shipping Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is Sun's commercial Java EE app server. There is also an open source counterpart, Glassfish v3.

Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of NetBeans 11.3, the third update of the popular Java-based IDE in its recently implemented quarterly release cycle.