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What is NetBeans?

NetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).

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Good IDE to use for development

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 27, 2022
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I generally use netbeans to develop software and web applications . It is a best IDE for development work . For user interface development it also support drag and drop featur...
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Engineer
NetBeans2 years of experience

Netbeans - A suitable IDE for getting started to java development

Rating: 6 out of 10
July 3, 2022
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I am using NetBeans since my university. I use this IDE for java related project development for smaller pet projects. For smaller projects using NetBeans is really easy so wh...
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Tharsanan Kurukulasingam
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Software Engineer
University of Moratuwa
NetBeans4 years of experience

Best open source IDE for Java

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 28, 2022
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We use NetBeans as the primary development tool for most of the Java projects. Being open source, it is highly cost effective and extremely simple to configure on a new worksp...
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Sirish Vadala
Engineer - Information Technology
Information Technology Specialist III
Office of Legislative Counsel State of California
NetBeans14 years of experience

A Good Open Source Software Development IDE.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 5, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
NetBeans is being used in our department to build Web applications based on JSP, JEE and Spring/Struts. It provides all the essential deployment tools to work with and produce...
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Kunal Verma
Engineer - Research & Development
Software Engineer Intern
UBC
NetBeans7 years of experience

A Great IDE for Java Devepolers

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 23, 2020
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I use the NetBeans tool to make coding in PHP programming language. NetBeans makes it very easy for us to create an e-commerce site. The wide library and simple user interface...
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zahit bogus
Consultant - Information Technology
Business Intelligence Consultant
EMO A.Åž
NetBeans6 years of experience
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NetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of NetBeans are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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A Powerful Tool for building enterprise Java applications

Rating: 8 out of 10
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January 09, 2022
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Management Consulting Company, 11-50 employees
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Verified User
NetBeans
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Most of the coding is done through Netbeans. Netbeans provides you with the set of tools which makes it easier to code. The intellisense feature of it allows coders to type in code and netbeans automatically shows you a list of functions from which you can select. Netbeans is a free and an open source software, which helps in collaborating with others.
Pros
  • Good for Collaboration
  • Open Source
  • Good for Debugging and Testing Code
Cons
  • Should have more add-ons on the latest technologies like Angular and ReactJS
  • The software occupies lots of space and works very slow on computers having i3 processor
  • Netbeans provide only one view unlike Eclipse
Likelihood to Recommend
It's best suited for collaboration. It is suitable for developing and testing enterprise Java applications. It has good debugging and testing strategies. The only drawback is debugging is very slow in Netbeans in comparison to Eclipse. It doesn't contain only Java as the coding language. It contains support for various others but is limited to the latest web development technologies.

Best open source IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 01, 2018
MU
Miguel Useche
Wordpress developer
Webdibs (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
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Verified User
NetBeans
12 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's being used as the main IDE for any Java, PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript development. We love their licensing and also many developers have a lot of experience with this application, so they don't need to learn new tools and start using their knowledge.

NetBeans lets developers code applications faster and it reduces errors by alerting them to any possible issue. This IDE includes a lot of tools that help developers to stay in a single app for their work instead of switching between apps during their workflow.
Pros
  • It supports multiple programming languages, so you can code frontend code and backend code in the same app. There's no need to switch to other apps or go to the console to execute things.
  • If you need to guarantee that your PHP application is OK and without any errors, NetBeans includes tools and support for external tools to do code quality reviews, interpreter errors, version compatibility, etc.
  • If you are doing multi-platform development, NetBeans can share its config between OSs so you can switch to another OS and do your job with the same configuration.
Cons
  • Main problem is its performance, JAVA IDEs are great but heavy and slow on older machines, and sometimes you'll feel like editing files is slow.
  • Netbean can include tools or develop plugins to add compatibility with multiple PHP frameworks and WordPress installation so you can develop better apps.
  • It should add better support for custom formatting so you can format your code with custom rules.
Likelihood to Recommend
NetBeans is a great developer if you work with multiple parts of a web application, like if you need to create a view, then business logic code, connect to the database, check any API calls, etc. You can do all of these things in NetBeans, there's no need to install additional tools.

Also, I think it offers the best debugger tool. It supports PHP out of the box and you can find problems faster and simpler with these tools.

Their UI is simpler, easy to customize and intuitive.

A Great IDE for Java Devepolers

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 23, 2020
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zahit bogus
Business Intelligence Consultant
EMO A.Åž (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
NetBeans
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use the NetBeans tool to make coding in PHP programming language. NetBeans makes it very easy for us to create an e-commerce site. The wide library and simple user interface are the reason why we prefer NetBeans. Also, since we are working on Business Analytics, I plan to do the coding process with Python via NetBeans.
Pros
  • Working synchronously with Github ensures that all team employees can access the project.
  • It can work on many platforms such as Windows and Linux. We can also run all libraries for the Linux environment
  • The strongest part of NetBeans is that it has Visual Web Pack feature. Adding drag and drop technology to its content, NetBeans Java is the ideal tool for compiling.
Cons
  • NetBeans creates the configuration file itself and it is difficult for us to be unable to change the configuration file on different operating systems.
  • When compiling code, compilation and execution performance is slower than competing IDEs.
Likelihood to Recommend
In particular, you can manage project files with a useful directory and file window. It also allows your projects to access existing FTP servers and sub-version repositories. Thanks to these tools, it makes our life easier to carry out all your transactions from a single point. It is also possible to copy and paste your projects on another computer. You can synchronize with Eclipse projects and buy Eclipse projects with NetBeans.

NetBeans Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 23, 2019
PJ
Piyush Jain
Network Engineer
BT (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
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Verified User
NetBeans
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
NetBeans is used for development purposes in our organization by the IT department. At first, we used a different IDE for software development like Sublime Editor and Eclipse but I made a decision to use Netbeans as it is fast and has many features which a developer needs no matter which technology he/she is working on.
Pros
  • Formatting and defining rules for each language is a very useful feature in this IDE.
  • The code can be deployed very easy from Netbeans itself.
Cons
  • It should provide more themes and background colors for the code window. Some dark themes are good but they slow down the system.
  • There have been a few bugs in the latest version of NetBeans. NetBean's developer should resolve those bugs.
Likelihood to Recommend
NetBeans are well suited if it is used by the same type of developers like Java developers or the same language developers. If a team has an IOS developer or Android developer they have to use Xcode or Android Studio Editor.

Why Use NetBeans for PHP?

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 20, 2017
da
dinesh audichya
Software Developer
KAN Softwares (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
NetBeans
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 most interesting thing is its auto detection of references in the code, it makes our understanding to code very fast and efficient. 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. Plugins support for various frameworks. Searching in folders etc
Pros
  • Provide a way to go to definition of object or methods called in derived class or anywhere. It makes our understanding of code very easy.
  • Difference checker - extremely well and better than meld.
  • Auto Syntax checking
Cons
  • Searching should be fast.
  • Launch (boot) time of netbeans is slow.
  • Should inherit some features of sublime, like auto code completion and selection of text in column style.
  • It is larger in size with respect to other editors.
Likelihood to Recommend
For Java, NetBeans best provides syntax checking, execution and difference checking, complete list of methods or functions etc. But it lacks in quick access to documentation to explore its features. Also, for HTML it is not well suited as doesn't provide preview. Also, you cannot use it for any language like we see in notepad plus plus. So, for python i will need to use different editor even I just want to see python code in proper coloring.
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