NetBeans, like Eclipse, is a free IDE used for developing programs in Java and in other programming languages. In general, we've found that Eclipse is more. Apache NetBeans is released four times a year. Our April release is a long-term support (LTS) release that benefits from our famous NetCAT community testing process, and will remain available and supported for a year. Our other quarterly releases provide early access to new features. See full release schedule.
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.
Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages.
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.
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