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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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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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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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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Most of the developers think, Netbeans is just a java IDE, but it’s not true. It is also an IDE for different languages like PHP, Javascript, JavaFX,C/C++ etc. It helps the developer to develop their product more efficiently and quickly. One of the best thing, I like for Netbeans is, it is open-source, also the source of Netbeans IDE and Netbeans platform is available to anyone to reuse under terms and policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

The thing which every developer hates, debugging. Yes, debugging in netbeans is quite slow compared to other IDE, the other thing which requires improvement is, memory usage. It takes large memory compared to other lighter IDEs, though it is very efficient platform for development, still it requires improvement for memory usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

If you are a beginner, then Netbeans IDE is the best choice for you for development in Java, Javascript,PHP etc. It is available for almost all important OS like Windows, Linux, Mac OS/X. In my experience, Netbeans is very easy to handle and navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Netbeans has many integrated dvelopments modules especially for java. It really works great in developing high-end products. There are many benefits for using Netbeans, like it is completed setup of almost all packages which you need for development, you can use only that module which you need during development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Netbeans is good to work with Open source servers and Oracle technologies.

The New Project - archetype support is good when compared to Eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

The IDE is not great when you use the Commercial servers like Weblogic/Websphere. It tends to become slow if the code base is huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used Netbeans IDE for a couple of years when using Open Source servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

net beans is very easy to use and flexible and it has auto format feature and coding standard.

intelligence feature is very good.package and API are easy to install. with NetBeans java code is very useful and reliable.it has a beautiful interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

sometimes it takes time to open so it goes slow down and hangs while the huge code of java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it is very easy to use and flexible so no need to spent extra money and tutor to learn every coder know how to use and work with this IDE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Very logical and easy to use Projects system that will get you started very fast, and will keep your websites as a separate project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

It has some issues with parsing files that are included more then once in the Project, and it can crash during that process. Sometimes, it can use too much memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

If you need it for PHP only, you can download PHP Editon, but you can also download full edition, and later disable features you don't need (or add them back if you need them later). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use NetBeans as my main development IDE for all my WordPress plugins, including the work on HTML, JS and CSS (with SCSS support too). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Strong support for Java including the Designer for JavaFX/FXML. Good PHP support. I like that the IDE is put out by the same company that authors Java. It provides some assurance that the IDE will be aware of the latest features language features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

I'm doing more with JavaScript now, and I found other IDEs better suited for the language and ecosystem. The configuration options are a little hard to contend with at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Update the look and feel. Provide greater support for the JS/Node ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have used NetBeans to develop Java and PHP applications. It makes development of applications much faster than other IDEs with these programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

I liked very much Net beans it is very easy yo use and user friendly, its interface is very good. Coding standards are shown in editor. Auto intelligence is awesome feature. Its debugging is also good and breakpoints is also good for terminates tge code flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

I didn't saw any bad things in netbeans but ine thing should we consider it is very heavy application so its take more time to open Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We solve many business we satisfied our clients as per their requirements and earn more profits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

It is the best platform for using java programs, and its interface is very interactive. We can easily use NetBeans, While we create any class then it automatically creates its structure. It saves a lot of time in development.

First thing I like syntax checking which saves a lot of time of code inspection for finding errors. Also, it provides a lot of shortcuts to jump which we usually do while coding and the most interesting thing is its auto-detection of references in the code, it makes our understanding to code very fast and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

If you throw the learning curve of an IDE on top of learning how to program, it can be quite

frustrating. Further, features and shortcuts for experienced programmers often hide

crucial but mundane details of a language. Details should not be overlooked when

learning a new language. Using an IDE may hamper the learning of a new language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Few more things, you cannot ignore are:-

Difference checker - very very accurate. It address our problems of code merging very efficiently

Sub version support - it changes color of files in files menu or tab, that is useful in getting information of updated files visually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Netbeans is great for website development, and easily runs the file you are working on with a click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Not the greatest user interface in the world, but I’ve seen worse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to use IDE for web dev. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

It is a free product like Eclipse and it is heavily supported by Oracle which makes is quite reliable. Also, Netbeans brought support for Java 8 much before Eclipse and this might happen for future Java versions as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

The community activity for NetBeans is much less when compared to Eclipse.

Also, since it has been acquired by Oracle, there is a big chance that it might lose its major backing if oracle abandons the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Consider it for quick projects or if you feel Eclipse is a bit bloated with loads of plugins. Also, check for the release compatibility with Java 9. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Frankly, it doesn't add any more value to a Project that Eclipse is incapable of doing. The only impact would have been early support for Java 8 which might have made some teams switch to Netbeans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

The background integration and compilation that allows for functions to be suggested as soon as any header file/ class file is included. Suggestions for variables are quick and precise. The ability to compress function definitions of multiple lines, into one line is pretty cool. makes the code look simple and easier to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

If we are using a function , the arguments that it takes are not immediately put in. (One of the things visual studio takes an edge). We have to wait till build to see if a function had any lack of arguments. The while on black gets pretty dull after a while. More colouring and fonts, like some used on atom can make the coding a bit more fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

If you are a old school code, who like to see things as it is, without a lot of abstraction. This is definitely one of the best solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Building applications on Cloud server using java. Other than that, small projects on data structure designs and data base implementation designs. One of the major benefits is how the bulk of the code is compiles so well and quickly. The debuggers like GDB included are easier to use. Breakpoint setups are simple. All there are paramount in base code building because of the amount of errors that exists in the code, if it is starting from scratch. It also needs to be compiled a lot of times. Including various libraries is also pretty simple and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.