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Most Helpful Reviews for Apache NetBeans
1 - 5 of 226 Reviews
Hasan
Verified reviewer
Banking, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Best IDE for Web, Desktop and Mobile Apps
It's been more than 3 years I am working on NetBeans and I am very satisfied. It helped me in developing multiple projects and especially integration with Ant, SVN, JEE servers and Maven. It is highly recommended to new developers.
PROSNetBeans is very well organized in terms of code development and java web development. It works on different platforms like Windows and Linux. The best part of NetBeans is that it has visual web pack feature. It comes with a lot of useful features such as debugging, code completion, multiple programming language support, integration and plugins. It's integration is awesome with other tools. The best feature of this product is source control management like GitHub and other version control tools.
CONSSometimes NetBeans crash when used for a long period, which is frustrating. It does not come with any professional support but one can easily join different groups or take help from seniors or from different forums. While working on big projects it consumes a lot of memory space and slow down other system processes.
Reasons for switching to Apache NetBeans
The main reason is that it is really difficult to integrate with other tools. It is little difficult to understand for new developers.
Omar Eduardo
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2021
Surpassed by the competition
Apache NetBeans is a good IDE, with good integration with Java. I would recommend it specifically to people that develop Java GUI applications with Swing. Its Swing integration is very intuitive, fully-featured and very reliable. Compared to Eclipse, working with Swing applications with NetBeans is a great option.
PROSNetBeans is easy to use and install. I used it mainly on the Windows platform, and I used it mainly to develop Java software and Java GUI Applications with Swing. Compared to other tools on the market, I think NetBeans has the best Swing support of all the IDEs I have tried (Eclipse tools have more bugs, Visual Studio Code does not natively support them). Its debugging tools are easy to use and very functional.
CONSNetBeans is usually slow to load and can be a resource hog. When working on my Mac laptop, battery drains quickly. I had many bugs using NetBeans v12 on Mac. I kept from updating to the newest version because I felt they were more stable for my workflow.
Reason for choosing Apache NetBeans
I did not choose Apache over the other tools.
Keith
Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2022
Good for Java and some other mobile languages
I would try it again and it was good for the java world and development
PROSGreat product that was fast at compiling and giving me answers to questions, great at picking out errors and very prompt and thorough about it.
CONSNot that great with startup or switching environments or even switching jve, jvm
Reasons for switching to Apache NetBeans
better development environment for java
Dylan
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2023
Solid, customisable, no frills Java IDE
Netbeans is like an old Volvo. It might not be the sexiest IDE to look at, but it requires very little maintenance and just gets the job done every time. It's rock steady, and has pretty much all the functionality you need.
PROSThe Swing GUI editor makes it extremely easy to build programs with fairly complex UI with drag and drop components, that are then easily wired up to functionality.
CONSIt often takes a long time for new features to make it to the IDE, and it can be a bit of a learning curve to get started.
Kirk
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Netbeans - Excellent IDE for PHP development
There are lots of editors out there for PHP, but Netbeans is one of the best out there for debugging
CONSDespite relatively simple requirements and few open pages, memory usage seems to quickly grow to where 3 gigs of RAM can be consumed. I'm not sure what all is in there.
Reasons for switching to Apache NetBeans
Cost. Switching to open source was a huge benefit.