NetBeans Reviews

Name: NetBeans
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

8 reviews
80% willing to recommend

205 followers

What is NetBeans?

NetBeans IDE. The Smarter and Faster Way to Code. Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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NetBeans is the #9 ranked solution in top IDE solutions. PeerSpot users give NetBeans an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. NetBeans is most commonly compared to Codespaces: NetBeans vs Codespaces.

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Featured NetBeans reviews

it_user725928

Programmer and Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees

Free, quality, easy usage Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support. NetBeans Platform can be freely used as a desktop application base. All the functionality is prepared for me. I make only the business modules It has improved organizational productivity. Background scanning of…

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it_user728640

System Architect and NetBeans Dream Team Member at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it. Basically, you can open any Maven project in IDE without any additional configuration For the user who chooses to use it, they can start to work on the company's projects as soon as the IDE is up and running. No additional…

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Dragan Bjedov

Java Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

* Java development support. (The Java editor is one of the best Java IMHO editors. Java projects support Ant and Maven.) * RCP support * GUI editor for Java windows * RCP support: An easy way to create your own app using NetBeans base. There is a lot of documentation for RCP creation. * Plugins can be easy created. Also there is support for other languages as C/C++, HTLM5, Javascript, Groovy, PHP... There is a lot of plugins that can be easily installed.

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NetBeans mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of NetBeans in the IDE category stands at 4.2%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier... For example, when working with Hibernate or with JPA, creating entities is very easy through a graphical interface."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."

Room for Improvement

"I would like there to be better integration with Git, as there are IDEs such as Eclipse that offer this integration in a much more elegant way than NetBeans."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."

Pricing

"NetBeans is free and open source."
"It is an open source and free tool, with no changes, and the licensing allows me even to change source code, if I need."
"I am sad that CLion is not free. Currently, it has no support for Linux makefiles, only cmake, and this is a big mess."

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