NetBeans

NetBeans

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NetBeans	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	NetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A

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Considered Both Products	NetBeans Verified User Engineer Chose NetBeans It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Senior Software Engineer Chose NetBeans I would say NetBeans only shines when it comes to smaller projects. I prefer using Eclipse and Intellij over NetBeans when it comes to developing larger projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose NetBeans Netbeans is great as a stand-alone java ide and for compiling your java code. The platform provides easy access to better make use of your repos. Between the other ide, NetBeans is easier for us to integrate with android SDK. The only problem is the UI and for all other code … Incentivized Helpful? Sirish Vadala Information Technology Specialist III Chose NetBeans IBM Rational Application Developer and IntelliJ IDEA are great with hell lot of features packed into the product and are subscription based. However, most of the features they were providing were moot from my organization's business perspective and the cost was expensive. Eclips… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetBeans Netbeans has a larger number of plugins than Eclipse does which makes development easier. It provides a lot of support for enterprise Java based applications. It has a powerful user interface which makes it easier to navigate through the software. It provides support for the … Incentivized Helpful? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose NetBeans NetBeans is open source and is freely available to use making it economical compared to Visual Studio IDE. It is fast compared to Visual Studio IDE. More Diversified Libraries are available with NetBeans to work on as compared to the Eclipse IDE. It can be used even by novices … Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant Chose NetBeans It is supported primarily by Oracle and is free. This is a very important plus. Also, many things come embedded. You don't have to worry about adding library or framework. Finally, one of my favorite features is you can design the interface with drag and drop. This feature is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose NetBeans IntelliJ IDEA is more feature-rich and has professional support available, but comes with increased licensing costs. Eclipse is widely used, and some of our developers still prefer Eclipse over NetBeans. However, developers spend more time working around IDE bugs when using Eclip… Helpful? Jatin Gupta Assistant Professor Chose NetBeans The biggest pro of NetBeans for us is that it is free and open-source, and this is why we decided to go with it over other similar products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetBeans Net beans is way better editor IDE than any other software. It is more advanced and more stable. The only problem with net beans is it consumes more resources of laptop / computer than any other editor. Sublime also supports multiple languages like NetBeans but it has a lot … Incentivized Helpful? Piyush Jain Network Engineer Chose NetBeans Formatting becomes easy. File navigation becomes easy. Can compile code in IDE itself. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetBeans All above mentioned is good for web development and Netbeans is an IDE which can do a lot more than normal text editors. File navigation is also easy in Netbeans. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose NetBeans NetBeans holds its own in comparison to other IDEs. Versus IntelliJ and Eclipse, it's a matter of preference and familiarity. Incentivized Helpful? AS Ashish Sharma Programmer Analyst Chose NetBeans … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose NetBeans NetBeans is free, open source and offers a lot of open source plugins. If you don't have money to invest in a proprietary IDE, you can use NetBeans as the main IDE. Also, it's backed up by a great community and Apache so you know that it will receive upgrades and updates to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose NetBeans NetBeans goes with other IDE's in market like Eclipse, Rational Application Development and more. I prefer NetBeans since it's a lighter version than RAD and Eclipse for building/developing Java and J2EE applications. It also has dynamic support for JavaScript, HTML, PHP. Incentivized Helpful? Carla Borges Consultor Tecnico - Java Developer Chose NetBeans I have been using NetBeans for many years and I am very comfortable with it. NetBeans is a Java IDE and for different languages such as PHP, Javascript, JavaFX, C / C ++, etc. unlike Eclipse, which is more useful only for Java. NetBeans helps the developer to develop their … Incentivized Helpful? DA dinesh audichya Software Developer Chose NetBeans It provides way to go to object or method declaration from its instance or next occurrence of object anywhere in the code. Also, it bundles difference checking and code version repos like svn, git and mercury. It almost have everything you need in development of your software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose NetBeans Easy to use. Not really proprietary to a single vendor or language. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetBeans Both are very good IDE's especially for Java. Both have great integrations. I chose NetBeans because of the better integration with Glassfish. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose NetBeans NetBeans is easier to use. It has a simpler UI and it's more similar with other IDEs than Eclipse. I never liked Eclipse's workspace concept, with NetBeans you just have projects. Overall I would say using NetBeans requires less learning since it's UI is more logical and you … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Erickson Senior Consultant Chose NetBeans I originally began coding with Eclipse, but found debugging to be difficult to implement; switched to NetBeans and never really looked back. When coding for specific projects (for instance Android or a Java class ) Eclipse seems to have a better foothold on integration of … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Open source Pro Web services Pro Easy to install
Top Cons	Minus Time to load Minus Software needs Minus Slow performance

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User Ratings
	NetBeans
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (22 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	NetBeans
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools. Incentivized Sirish Vadala Information Technology Specialist III Read full review
Pros	Open Source Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem. Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools. Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish. Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Open Source NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans. File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Open Source Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code. Incentivized Andy Erickson Senior Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	Open Source NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums. Incentivized zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work. Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this. Incentivized Piyush Jain Network Engineer Read full review
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