NetBeans Reviews

Name: NetBeans
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4 (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 #8 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. NetBeans is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 50% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 11% of all views.

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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 (SE, EE, JavaFx) and RCP development. I'm also developing plugins for NetBeans IDE It has sped up our Java development. Regarding using Eclipse before, creating GUI forms became much faster and as well as the maintenance of them. Java development support. (The Java editor is one of the…

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Ronald Melendez

Consultor Senior Front-End Javascript at SOAINT

I have worked mainly on the front-end of Java-based applications, and NetBeans has worked really well, at least in projects with Maven structure When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier. I can also add dependencies easily. The…

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NetBeans mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of NetBeans in the IDE category stands at 2.6%, up from 2.4% 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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