Best Support for Latest Java Technologies

NetBeans IDE is the official IDE for Java 8. With its editors, code analyzers,
and converters, you can quickly and smoothly upgrade your applications to use
new Java 8 language constructs, such as lambdas, functional operations, and
method references.

Batch analyzers and converters are provided to search through multiple

applications at the same time, matching patterns for conversion to new Java 8
language constructs.

With its constantly improving Java Editor, many rich features and an extensive
range of tools, templates and samples, NetBeans IDE sets the standard for
developing with cutting edge technologies out of the box.
Fast & Smart Code Editing
An IDE is much more than a text editor. The NetBeans Editor indents lines,
matches words and brackets, and highlights source code syntactically and
semantically. It lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and
powerful tools, while it also provides code templates, coding tips, and code
generators.

The editor supports many languages from Java, C/C++, XML and HTML, to
PHP, Groovy, Javadoc, JavaScript and JSP. Because the editor is extensible,
you can plug in support for many other languages.

Easy & Efficient Project Management

Keeping a clear overview of large applications, with thousands of folders and
files, and millions of lines of code, is a daunting task. NetBeans IDE provides
different views of your data, from multiple project windows to helpful tools for
setting up your applications and managing them efficiently, letting you drill
down into your data quickly and easily, while giving you versioning tools via
Subversion, Mercurial, and Git integration out of the box.

When new developers join your project, they can understand the structure of
your application because your code is well-organized.
Rapid User Interface Development
Design GUIs for Java SE, HTML5, Jav EE, PHP, C/C++, and Java ME
applications quickly and smoothly by using editors and drag-and-drop tools in
the IDE.

For Java SE applications, the NetBeans GUI Builder automatically takes care of
correct spacing and alignment, while supporting in-place editing, as well. The
GUI builder is so easy to use and intuitive that it has been used to prototype
GUIs live at customer presentations

Write Bug Free Code

The cost of buggy code increases the longer it remains unfixed. NetBeans
provides static analysis tools, especially integration with the widely used
FindBugs tool, for identifying and fixing common problems in Java code. In
addition, the NetBeans Debugger lets you place breakpoints in your source
code, add field watches, step through your code, run into methods, take
snapshots and monitor execution as it occurs.

The NetBeans Profiler provides expert assistance for optimizing your

application's speed and memory usage, and makes it easier to build reliable and
scalable Java SE, JavaFX and Java EE applications. NetBeans IDE includes a
visual debugger for Java SE applications, letting you debug user interfaces
without looking into source code. Take GUI snapshots of your applications and
click on user interface elements to jump back into the related source code.
Support for
Multiple
Languages
NetBeans IDE offers
superior support for
C/C++ and PHP
developers, providing
comprehensive editors
and tools for their
related frameworks and
technologies. In
addition, the IDE has
editors and tools for
XML, HTML, PHP,
Groovy, Javadoc,
JavaScript, and JSP.

Rich Set of
Community
Provided Plugins
The NetBeans community
is large and active; many
users are developing new
plugins all the time because
NetBeans IDE is extensible
and has well-documented
APIs. Are you missing a
feature in NetBeans IDE?
Create a plugin that fills
the gap and participate in
making NetBeans even
better than it already is!
NetBeans IDE releases
NetBeans IDE 6.0 introduced support for developing IDE modules and rich client applications based
on the NetBeans platform, a Java Swing GUI builder (formerly known as "Project Matisse"),
improved CVS support, WebLogic 9 and JBoss 4 support, and many editor enhancements. NetBeans
6 is available in official repositories of major Linux distributions.
NetBeans IDE 6.5, released in November 2008, extended the existing Java EE features (including
Java Persistence support, EJB 3 and JAX-WS). Additionally, the NetBeans Enterprise Pack supports
the development of Java EE 5 enterprise applications, including SOA visual design tools, XML
schema tools, web services orchestration (for BPEL), and UML modeling. The NetBeans IDE Bundle
for C/C++ supports C/C++ and FORTRAN development.
NetBeans IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to provide complete support of Java EE 6 and the GlassFish
Enterprise Server v3. Developers hosting their open-source projects on kenai.com additionally benefit
from instant messaging and issue tracking integration and navigation right in the IDE, support for web
application development with PHP 5.3 and the Symfony framework, and improved code completion,
layouts, hints and navigation in JavaFX projects.
NetBeans IDE 6.9, released in June 2010, added support for OSGi, Spring Framework 3.0, Java EE
dependency injection (JSR-299), Zend Framework for PHP, and easier code navigation (such as "Is
Overridden/Implemented" annotations), formatting, hints, and refactoring across several languages.
NetBeans IDE 7.0 was released in April 2011. On August 1, 2011, the NetBeans Team released
NetBeans IDE 7.0.1, which has full support for the official release of the Java SE 7 platform.[12]
NetBeans IDE 7.3 was released in February 2013 which added support for HTML5 and web
technologies.[13]
NetBeans IDE 7.4 was released on 15 October 2013.
NetBeans IDE 8.0 was released on 18 March 2014.
NetBeans IDE 8.1 was released on 4 November 2015.
NetBeans IDE 8.2 was released on 3 October 2016.
Netbeans 9.0, which adds support for Java 9 and 10, was released on 29 July 2018, by the Apache
Incubator project.[10][11][14][15]
NetBeans 10.0 was released on 27 December 2018. It brings support for Java 11 and improved
support for PHP (7.0–7.3).
NetBeans 11.0 was released on 4 April 2019.
NetBeans 11.1 was released on 22 July 2019.