NetBeans

NetBeans

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NetBeans	Score9.6 out of 10	N/A	NetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose NetBeans It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at University of Moratuwa (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose NetBeans I would say NetBeans only shines when it comes to smaller projects. I prefer using Eclipse and Intellij over NetBeans when it comes to developing larger projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans Netbeans is great as a stand-alone java ide and for compiling your java code. The platform provides easy access to better make use of your repos. Between the other ide, NetBeans is easier for us to integrate with android SDK. The only problem is the UI and for all other code … Incentivized Helpful? Sirish Vadala Information Technology Specialist III in Information Technology at Office of Legislative Counsel State of California (Government Relations, 501-1000 employees) Chose NetBeans IBM Rational Application Developer and IntelliJ IDEA are great with hell lot of features packed into the product and are subscription based. However, most of the features they were providing were moot from my organization's business perspective and the cost was expensive. Eclips… Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant in Information Technology at EMO A.Ş (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose NetBeans It is supported primarily by Oracle and is free. This is a very important plus. Also, many things come embedded. You don't have to worry about adding library or framework. Finally, one of my favorite features is you can design the interface with drag and drop. This feature is … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose NetBeans NetBeans is open source and is freely available to use making it economical compared to Visual Studio IDE. It is fast compared to Visual Studio IDE. More Diversified Libraries are available with NetBeans to work on as compared to the Eclipse IDE. It can be used even by novices … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans IntelliJ IDEA is more feature-rich and has professional support available, but comes with increased licensing costs. Eclipse is widely used, and some of our developers still prefer Eclipse over NetBeans. However, developers spend more time working around IDE bugs when using Eclip… Incentivized Helpful? Jatin Gupta Assistant Professor in Engineering at Chitkara University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose NetBeans The biggest pro of NetBeans for us is that it is free and open-source, and this is why we decided to go with it over other similar products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans Net beans is way better editor IDE than any other software. It is more advanced and more stable. The only problem with net beans is it consumes more resources of laptop / computer than any other editor. Sublime also supports multiple languages like NetBeans but it has a lot … Incentivized Helpful? Piyush Jain Network Engineer in Information Technology at BT (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose NetBeans Formatting becomes easy. File navigation becomes easy. Can compile code in IDE itself. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans All above mentioned is good for web development and Netbeans is an IDE which can do a lot more than normal text editors. File navigation is also easy in Netbeans. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans NetBeans holds its own in comparison to other IDEs. Versus IntelliJ and Eclipse, it's a matter of preference and familiarity. Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Sharma Programmer Analyst in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose NetBeans … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer in Information Technology at Webdibs (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose NetBeans NetBeans is free, open source and offers a lot of open source plugins. If you don't have money to invest in a proprietary IDE, you can use NetBeans as the main IDE. Also, it's backed up by a great community and Apache so you know that it will receive upgrades and updates to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans NetBeans goes with other IDE's in market like Eclipse, Rational Application Development and more. I prefer NetBeans since it's a lighter version than RAD and Eclipse for building/developing Java and J2EE applications. It also has dynamic support for JavaScript, HTML, PHP. Incentivized Helpful? Carla Borges Consultor Tecnico - Java Developer in Engineering at Consultec-TI (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose NetBeans I have been using NetBeans for many years and I am very comfortable with it. NetBeans is a Java IDE and for different languages such as PHP, Javascript, JavaFX, C / C ++, etc. unlike Eclipse, which is more useful only for Java. NetBeans helps the developer to develop their … Incentivized Helpful? dinesh audichya Software Developer in Information Technology at KAN Softwares (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose NetBeans It provides way to go to object or method declaration from its instance or next occurrence of object anywhere in the code. Also, it bundles difference checking and code version repos like svn, git and mercury. It almost have everything you need in development of your software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans Easy to use. Not really proprietary to a single vendor or language. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans Netbeans has a larger number of plugins than Eclipse does which makes development easier. It provides a lot of support for enterprise Java based applications. It has a powerful user interface which makes it easier to navigate through the software. It provides support for the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans Both are very good IDE's especially for Java. Both have great integrations. I chose NetBeans because of the better integration with Glassfish. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NetBeans NetBeans is easier to use. It has a simpler UI and it's more similar with other IDEs than Eclipse. I never liked Eclipse's workspace concept, with NetBeans you just have projects. Overall I would say using NetBeans requires less learning since it's UI is more logical and you … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Erickson Senior Consultant in Professional Services at Navigant (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees) Chose NetBeans I originally began coding with Eclipse, but found debugging to be difficult to implement; switched to NetBeans and never really looked back. When coding for specific projects (for instance Android or a Java class ) Eclipse seems to have a better foothold on integration of … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	NetBeans
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (22 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (4 ratings)