“Welcome to netbeans.org, home of the original free and open source IDE. Develop cross-platform desktop, mobile and web applications based on industry standards utilizing the latest technologies with our full-featured integrated development environment for Java Software Developers.

The NetBeans platform is an application runtime - a “generic large desktop application.” Most desktop applications have common requirements - menus, document management, settings and so forth. Nobody enjoys writing menu code or setting storage code. With the NetBeans Platform, you don’t have to. Just write modules to implement what you need, bundle them up with the NetBeans Platform, and you have a beautiful, branded, cross-platform application. And if you need custom functionality or components, the Platform is built to be flexible.”