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What is NetBeans?

NetBeans IDE. The Smarter and Faster Way to Code. Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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NetBeans IDE. The Smarter and Faster Way to Code. Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.


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Most developers recognize the NetBeans IDE as the original free Java IDE. It is that, and much more! The NetBeans IDE provides support for several languages (PHP, JavaFX, C/C++, JavaScript, etc.) and frameworks. NetBeans is an open-source project dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (the NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products.

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"A must have IDE for any type of Java development ."
Netbeans provide Auto complete,Bracket Matching and Cross platform . Netbeans provide framework support . Drag and drop . GUI designing is very s...
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"Netbeans, a good Java IDE, but for others, poor"
I like two things mainly, the way you can create GUIs, and the way it works for Java, is my main IDE when I'm working with Java.
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Abhishek J.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Apache NetBeans is very good integrated development environment.

Easy to use, simple and easy User Interface.

Default colour and font size are also looks great to work on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

I found slow response while working on heavy and big projects.

Also it take more time to load dependency from pom.xml file as compare to other IDEs present in market.

Also it is less use in the IT companies by professionals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Must use IDE for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used NetBeans for creating Java programs and projects it is very easy to create projects in Java with the use of NetBeans.

Must use IDE for the beginners how are looking for good IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

NetBeans is a versatile IDE available for most platforms. It is easy to use and install. Have some preset for Java, C++ and PHP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

We really dislike the interface of NetBeans. It is old and seems to have been stuck in time. A good refresh would help. The integrated PHP framework are very old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

There is other free alternative. Look elsewhere first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

NetBeans, help us to have quick debugging on some software. The IDE itself is free, so no extra cost in using it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

We can create web pages or web sights using this application, this application supports HTML, PHP, java script and more it provides more technologies for designing and implement web pages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

I dint find any disadvantages in this application but some time I face some lag in the application wen i connect this application to bitbucket or any other tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

I will definitely recommend others to use this application. It is useful for developers for ui development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easilycreate website and implement ui using this application as platform It also provide a feature like autopopulate the code so that we no need to write entire code.

I can easily important and export projects in this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

The best part of NetBeans is its java compatibility. It especially supports java in that it is easy to code in java using Netbeans. we can create c++, PHP, Maven projects using Netbeans, which makes it easy for us even to create java web projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Netbeans is the best IDE, the way it organizes our projects, the UI, or the frontend of Netbeans should be improved for a better user experience. Apart from this, everything is just excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Would you please try to add more additional features which make the IDF more interesting? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Netbeans to create a project hostel management system which is a java web app. I am easily able to create it. The arrangement of code is perfect. After creating a project, subfolders are created by default, which makes the code looks very organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tambia E.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Its JAVA auto-complete functions are marvelous.

Its facility to integerate application servers.

The facility to compile your work without having to type any premitive commands on the command terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Netbeans plugins demand tremendous amounts of resources, both CPU and RAM resources.

The time for updates to be released is lengthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

Work problems. Software programming. Its auto-complete faculties make coding fast. It also has some built-in shortcuts, which make moving from one file to the other and file editing very simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

* It is a good and easy to learn IDA to make faster and efficient development especially if you are java developer

* It has good plugins to make your development easier.

* Shortcuts are provided and makes your development easier.

* By the plugins that Netbeans provides, you can use frameworks and make your development easier.

* You can use APIs with Netbeans easily therefore you can connect to Rest Services or Database easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

* It is good if you have small applications but I do not advice if you have big applications. Netbeans is not good if you have a large application. I would advice other IDEs if you have a large applications as sometimes it is frozen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Netbeans is free to download and great if you have a small application. I think it is better than Eclipse. But it is frozen sometimes and the performance is not good enough if you have a large application., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

* Java Development.

* By using APIs that Netbeans provides, I can connect to Database or WebServices easily.

* Connecting to rest services.

* Not only backend development also you can make frontent development by using Netbeans as Javascript is also supported in Netbeans . (or other Frontend languages are alsso supported) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishal T.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

The best thing about Netbeans is UI which is very clean, simple to use and a full-featured IDE. It has the capability for debugging the application and providing a complete runtime environment for the software development using various languages like Java, PHP, etc. It has a cool feature of custom theming of IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

There is only one thing that I don't like about Netbeans; It is a bit heavy on RAM usage and takes some time to load entirely with all of its modules. The remaining things are fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

PHP application development with different frameworks of PHP, be it Drupal, Codeigniter, or Laravel. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the front end of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Luis G.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

I like Netbeans for quick projects where I need to generate a generic project structure as quickly as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

What I don't like is that it may be difficult for me to change the configuration once the project has been generated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

I recommend using NetBeans for Java or PHP development; it is versatile and integrates with other tools and allows the import of source code quickly and safely from other IDE's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have worked with NetBeans solving programming projects in Java where it was necessary to import the project from other IDE's such as Eclipse, for example Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

NetBeans is a multi-language platform, by that, I mean you can learn and code different programming languages such as java++, Html, and Php. Second, it is quite easy to use; hence it is a great tool to install. Lastly, it is very good for the creation of testing scripts for automation testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Its a very heavy software that consumes a lot of computer resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Are you looking for a fast and reliable way to develop JAVA desktop, mobile and web applications, I recommend you to try NetBeans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use NetBeans to develop Java desktop, mobile, and web applications. I also use NetBeans to develop tools that streamline the building and

deployment of applications. Our bolt application we developed it using Netbeans platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Teerath P.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

NetBeans is an IDE for developing Java apps that is relatively easy to use.

In comparison to other compilers, it creates a smooth and straightforward user interface.

Developers can reliably model GUIs live, even during customer introductions, thanks to the GUI product's intuitive and straightforward-to-use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

There seems to be no hatred for NetBeans because it is a user-friendly & reliable IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

If you are fresh to web development, I strongly advise you to use this IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yes, I'm involved with  Java Apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.