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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
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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).

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The most common users of NetBeans are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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NetBeans: Best free and open-source software for development

Rating: 7 out of 10
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September 11, 2018
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Ashish Sharma
Programmer Analyst
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
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Verified User
NetBeans
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used by my department involving a group of skilled programmers. This programming environment has several tools that help my organisation to develop software quickly, especially if we need to build a graphical interface quickly and without major complications. I basically work on NetBeans to develop enterprise web applications using Java Server Pages, Java Server Faces and Hibernate. NetBeans makes the work [become] handy and the code is easily understandable and readable.
Pros
  • NetBeans supports a large number of Java applications such as J2SE and EJB.
  • Easy to install
  • Free and open source
  • When you are developing your applications, you can detect errors very quickly.
  • Indicating edited code and files based on GIT commits
Cons
  • Outdated framework support.
  • Violating PSR-2 coding standards.
  • The issue with NetBeans is that it takes a lot of time to load and consumes a lot of memory.
  • Consumes more memory space as compared to other IDEs.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a beginner, then NetBeans IDE is the best choice for you for development in Java, Javascript, PHP etc. It is a software that allows quick adaptation for new projects or people who do not know much about development. I fully recommend NetBeans IDE; with additional plugins installed it can be used for development with other programming languages.

Good IDE to use for development

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 27, 2022
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
NetBeans
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 feature for user interface components . It helps in locally start a server and deploy our app on it and test the application.
Pros
  • Development features
  • Server creation and deployment
  • UI development tools
  • Unit testing features
Cons
  • Sometime reference resolution don't happen automatically
  • It does not take too much load...sometimes crashed when importing projects having too much dependencies and references
  • Face difficulties in installing extensions
Likelihood to Recommend
It is good for frontend development projects but it is less suited for java development related projects . Because it does not support various extensions which are very helpful during development process . Other than that it is good to use , server integration is also easy in netbeans and user experience is also good .

Netbeans gives you the power to develop

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2017
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
NetBeans
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Each developer in our organization runs a local instance of Netbeans. We use it for the primary IDE for our PHP applications. It has many tools that help improve the ability of our developers to write good code and to access resources related to the projects they are working on. Each developer can customize many aspects of the software to suit their unique styles and likes.
Pros
  • PHP code suggestions
  • Maintain references between projects, classes, and functions
  • Many customizable key board shortcuts
Cons
  • Integrations with third party applications
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it primary for development in half a dozen separate PHP applications. We have common projects that span all of the applications. Netbeans does a good job helping to keep track of all of the relationships and dependencies.

Why Use NetBeans for PHP?

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 20, 2017
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dinesh audichya
Software Developer
KAN Softwares (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
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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.

Simple but effective

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 07, 2017
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
NetBeans
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's used for Java programming primarily by members of software development department. It's also used by some consultants for small tasks. It helps with the development of software and completing of tasks that require Java language to be used.
Pros
  • Maven integration, easy to create and open projects without external plugins.
  • Available plugins, they are easy to install and there are lot of plugins that improve usage.
  • Good UI, clean but has lot of information. Easy to get started with.
Cons
  • Gradle integration requires third party plugin.
  • Speed. Code completion could be faster. You often have to wait until the IDE comes up with suggestions.
  • Sometimes IDE has to be restarted until it removes "red underlines" from UI. It doesn't seem to always refresh properly after code has been corrected.
Likelihood to Recommend
NetBeans is suited perfectly for all kinds of Java development. It comes integrated with lots of features that are required in professional software development so you can spend more time getting things done and less time configuring your IDE. It's also good for new developers due to a clean UI and ability to get started with new or existing projects quickly. Perhaps for other languages, other IDEs may suit better, but for Java development, NetBeans is always a reliable choice.
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