Apache NetBeans IDE provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications and websites in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more. NetBeans runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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.

The NetBeans Platform is a framework for simplifying the development of Java Swing desktop applications. The NetBeans IDE bundle for Java SE contains what is needed to develop 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 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.

The platform offers reusable services common to desktop applications, allowing developers to focus on the logic specific to their application. Among the features of the platform are:

● User interface management (e.g., menus and toolbars)
● User settings management
● Storage management (saving and loading any data)
● Window management
● Wizard framework (supports step-by-step dialogs)
● NetBeans Visual Library
● Integrated development tools