On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in the newest release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8).

Oracle has released NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2! Some developers might be disappointed with the discontinuation of official Ruby support, or the fact that JUnit is no longer being bundled by default.

Software developers are creatures of habit, so when it comes to getting them to change their ways, like moving away from Eclipse or IntelliJ and taking the time to download the latest NetBeans' IDE, ...