Integrated Development Environments, known by their acronym IDE, are applications that provide us with the services we need to develop software. And all these IDEs differ depending on the coding language used, of course, because not all of them have the same requirements.

One of the most popular languages ​​at present for developing desktop, mobile and web applications is Java, and perhaps the best development environment for working with it is Java. NetBeans IDEan open source project with many users.

Everything you need to get started developing plug-ins and Java applications

This development platform offers us different types of services, allowing us to focus on our application. Here are the main features offered:

• NetBeans Visual Library.
• All kinds of integrated development tools.
• Support for step-by-step dialogs with helper frame.
• User interface control, the ability to add and remove menus and toolbars.
• User configuration management.
• The ability to manage our storage from where we can download data or save our work.
• Add-on support.

This software is also allows us to install certain modules and librarieslike the ones you need to build service-oriented applications with XML schema tools and a WSDL editor, or whatever you need to build PHP web applications.