The NetBeans IDE is written in Java and can run anywhere a JVM is installed, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris. A JDK is required for Java development functionality, but is not required for development in other programming languages. The NetBeans platform allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. Applications based on the NetBeans platform (including the NetBeans IDE) can be extended by third party developers.
Code Templates: For example, when you create a new Java class, NetBeans retrieves the initial contents from the 'Java Class' code template. To configure code templates, select 'Tools' menu ⇒ 'Templates' ⇒ Choose the desired template ⇒ 'Open in Editor'. Aspose for NetBeans project enables NetBeans IDE users to create a new NetBeans project through an Aspose Project Wizard. Through this wizard, developers can select and download the latest Aspose File Format Java libraries and samples of their choice.
NetBeans began in 1996 as Xelfi (word play on Delphi), a Java IDE student project under the guidance of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. In 1997 Roman Stan?k formed a company around the project and produced commercial versions of the NetBeans IDE until it was bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun open-sourced the NetBeans IDE in June 2000. Since then, the NetBeans community has continued to grow.
The NetBeans Platform is a reusable framework for simplifying the development of Java Swing desktop applications. The NetBeans IDE bundle for Java SE contains what is needed to start developing NetBeans plugins and NetBeans Platform based applications; no additional SDK is required.
Applications can install modules dynamically. Any application can include the Update Center module to allow users of the application to download digitally-signed upgrades and new features directly into the running application. Reinstalling an upgrade or a new release does not force users to download the entire application again.
NetBeans Features
- User interface management (e.g. menus and toolbars)
- User settings management
- Storage management (saving and loading any kind of data)
- Window management
- Wizard framework (supports step-by-step dialogs)
- NetBeans Visual Library
- Integrated Development Tools
Apache NetBeans is free and open source and is governed by the Apache Software Foundation.
Fast & Smart Editing
Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. It highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools.
Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and More
Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages.
Cross Platform
Apache NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too.
What's New:
Enhancements
Performance
- Speed up finding binaries for source files, most notable performance increase on refactoring. (PR-1430)
- Using Java NIO2 Watchers on Windows and Linux (PR-1349)
- Optimized the archive file detection (PR-1422)
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- The Gradle features can now read Java compiler arguments, enabling NetBeans support for Java preview features in Gradle projects. (PR-1494)
- Gradle now can accept user input from its Output tab. (PR-1461)
- NetBeans honors the project’s org.gradle.jvmargs property when launching Gradle Daemon (PR-1501)
Other
- JavaScript parser is now correctly licensed and no longer needs to be installed separately (PR-1407)
- Enhancement to the installer enables subsets of Apache NetBeans to be installed (PR-1505)
- Upgraded Payara support to Payara Platform 5.193 (PR-1470)
- Amazon Beanstalk support updates (PR-1312)
- HTML5 attribute syntax support (PR-1380)
- Cleaned up Welcome Screen no longer refers to Oracle backends (PR-1457)
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Fixes
- Maven-based NetBeans modules can now be created again (commit 9e32a85)
- 'Copy Dependent Libraries' in Ant-based projects works again (PR-1469)
- OpenJFX Gluon samples are now correctly registered (PR-1503)
Notes:
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- The donation of the NetBeans C and C++ features from Oracle to Apache was not complete at the time of the 11.2 release, though it is not far off, and the 11.3 release (January 2020) is scheduled to focus primarily on the integration of the C and C++ features, once they land in the Apache NetBeans GitHub. Until then, go to the Plugin Manager, enable the NetBeans IDE 8.2 Update Center, which lets you install the NetBeans IDE 8.2 modules providing C and C++ features.
- WildFly integration is supported by means of the WildFly Application Server plugin located in the Plugin Portal.
- Support for JSF 2.3 is available as a pull request, too late for inclusion in 11.2, scheduled for 11.3: PR-1576
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