NetBeans

"At Liquid Robotics, our use of NetBeans IDE is all about integration. There's the seamless integration of development tools and Java technologies within NetBeans IDE, but it's also very good at integrating external features, for example, Jenkins, which we use for our build server, Git (via GitBlit), which is our source code repository, JIRA for bug tracking, Maven for running builds, and Artifactory for maintaining the artifacts created from the builds. Then there's the code we're writing—we have our own in-the-cloud data repository, a pile of web applications, some Java desktop applications, and code that runs on the robot using the JDK 7 embedded ARM VM. Being able to debug and do performance monitoring directly on an embedded device is huge. I was a very early adopter of NetBeans IDE 7.3, which introduced this feature, just because of its support for embedded profiling."

"NetBeans IDE is the key development environment for the Payara engineering team for developing Payara Server, a drop-in replacement for GlassFish, with full 24/7 software support. We use GIT and Maven throughout our development lifecycle and the NetBeans support for these tools is first rate. As we are building a Java EE 7 application server, the extensive tooling in NetBeans for the rapid creation of Java EE applications means that our engineers can rapidly build Java EE test cases and example applications to put Payara through its paces. In addition, the built-in integration with GlassFish means we can point NetBeans at a Payara installation, and then deploy and debug Java EE 7 applications on the server immediately. We’ve found the IDE is very intuitive with great depth for experienced developers and also very easy for new developers and interns to get to grips with quickly."

"We needed tools that would shield the complexity of building RESTful web services and instead would allow us to focus on domain-specific functionality as much as possible. NetBeans IDE enables us to do exactly that because it is a feature-rich IDE that allows for rapid application development by means of design pattern templates and many advanced editor features, such as smart and expressive code completion."

"We have found that NetBeans IDE is fast at introducing new features that ease Java EE development and integrates perfectly with popular tools like Maven. In fact, we consider NetBeans IDE to provide the best Maven integration of any IDE we have encountered."

"NetBeans IDE meets our requirements out of the box. That's important to us, because we don't like spending time finding, installing, and configuring plugins for essential features. We are impressed with the quality and attention to detail that pervades the NetBeans IDE product, with steady improvements release after release."

"NetBeans IDE has been an invaluable tool for teaching Java and C++ courses to our clients. The IDE is intuitive, fun to learn, and easily configurable. The out-of-box installation is a plus and lets students get up to speed quickly. Many subsequently adopt the IDE for their projects at work. NetBeans IDE 8 is particularly useful because students can use the IDE to convert older Java code to the newer Java 8 lambdas and streams."

"NetBeans IDE is easy and intuitive to use and has helped in learning the Java language, while also providing all the productivity tools we need, such as a fullblown Profiler, powerful tools for deployment to the Raspberry Pi, and native integration with the Mercurial versioning system."

"NetBeans is a modern, lightweight and fully capable IDE. It is unique among current open-source IDEs, in that it is the most advanced for addressing our primary challenges. NetBeans IDE presents standard operations in a way that really minimizes hunting around and wasting time, to find out how to accomplish what you need to do."

"NetBeans has allowed the development team to save significant time; the ready to use solutions, design patterns and guidelines help to achieve a solid and consistent design of our application."

"NetBeans reduces complexity in development processes. The same tools that are used for development, continuous integration, and delivery are seamlessly available inside the IDE. NetBeans does not get in the way and enables distraction-free development and training in new technologies and techniques."

"Suyara was built from the ground up in NetBeans IDE. Thanks to the speed of the IDE, its flexibility, and its constant improvements from release to release, the integration of the IDE with our workflow and our development environment was smooth and intuitive."

"At RewardsPay.com, our engineers use NetBeans IDE for Java EE development. The support in NetBeans IDE for the latest Java EE specifications such as JAX-RS and CDI annotations, together with GlassFish, keeps our team highly productive. NetBeans IDE's extensible Ant-based build mechanism lets us easily orchestrate custom tasks and run builds on headless staging servers and its Java editor features, such as Java hints, have also been helpful in learning of new JDK constructs, as well as identifying potential bugs."

"As NetBeans IDE users since 2003, throughout the years, NetBeans IDE has continuously offered great support for the tools and methodologies we use. Its Java Editor integrates well with our development processes, thanks to its integrated Javadoc, syntax highlighting, source control tools, refactoring tools and profiler. Our development teams like the range of new tools in the latest NetBeans IDE releases, in particular the natural interaction of the development environment with the browser, as well as the JDK 8 development tools."

"NetBeans IDE has been our primary IDE for developing advanced Java web applications for the insurance industry, since 2006. It has proven to be a stable and reliable environment and the versioning support has been seamless through migrations from CVS to Subversion and more recently to Git. The built-in integration with Glassfish, Tomcat, and MySQL enables us to set up development environments simply and quickly. We also like the HTML5 features for Java application development, while leveraging the support for Scala, as we move into a more polygot approach to development."

"We particularly appreciate NetBeans IDE for its quality. It is a well integrated Java EE development environment with the capacity to also seamlessly support non Java EE frameworks, such as JavaScript and CSS. We also like Git support in NetBeans IDE and its capability to rely on Maven for project descriptions. Moreover, NetBeans IDE's performance and memory usage have been improved from release to release. In our opinion, NetBeans is the best open source Java IDE."

"NetBeans IDE is way ahead of other IDEs, as far as Java programming is concerned. As for web programming, we have found NetBeans IDE's flexibility for debugging JavaScript, HTML, and CSS very useful. Features such as full-featured syntax highlighting, code completion, and instant documentation for all files are tools we use on a day to day basis."

"We needed to manage our growing code base and speed up the creation of artifacts in our application. NetBeans IDE responds to these needs out of the box. Our code is certainly much more manageable and cleaner than it would have been without NetBeans IDE."

"Agile development with NetBeans IDE is very good. In particular, NetBeans IDE's functionality that helps with refactoring and versioning support has been extremely helpful in the development of our solutions for legal drafting and statute management."

"As long-term users of NetBeans IDE, we started the process of migrating to the new Java EE specifications with RESTful Web Services and an HTML5 frontend. With NetBeans IDE and its HTML5 tools, our backend Java engineers and frontend web designers are able to use the same IDE, which simplifies and speeds up pur development processes. Finally, the whole team is able to 'speak' the same IDE."

"NetBeans IDE and Java EE are indispensable to us. We have been using NetBeans IDE for 10 years or more and migrated to Java EE for its simplicity. Our business processes are complicated enough as it is, that's why we are thrilled by the simplicity offered by NetBeans and Java EE."

"We standardized on NetBeans IDE as our Java IDE of choice eight years ago and each new release continues to reinforce our decision. The IDE is very easy due to its natural and user-friendly design and the support for Java EE and multiple languages is essential for building maintainable code for our expanding services."

"Codename One is developed in NetBeans IDE and has a huge portion of its users in the NetBeans community. The speed with which we have been able to develop the Codename One plugin in the IDE is a testament to the efficiency of the tools it provides."

"NetBeans IDE has been a critical tool in delivering our PDF/HTML5 solutions to our customers on time. We have been impressed with its stability and performance and eagerly look forward to each new release."

"NetBeans IDE is a highly productive development tool, with constantly improving stability and performance. It has the support of a vibrant development community that responds quickly to any issues encountered in the IDE or feature requests."

"NetBeans IDE has been very useful to us in showing that Java EE is simple and easy to use, enabling us to develop a range of enterprise and corporate applications. The integration of NetBeans IDE with GlassFish, with its intuitive and responsive deployment features, brings back the fun to developers."

"NetBeans IDE allows our developers to build high quality applications quickly and easily. We use the IDE to create web applications using the Java EE platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript, and Ajax. We really appreciate the IDE's out-of-box plugins, especially its first class support for Git and Maven. We take advantage of numerous features, such as the profiling and refactoring tools, which help us debug and maintain dozens of our applications."

"NetBeans IDE provides everything we need out of the box. Its out-of-the-box experience for Java EE development is easy for us to set up and get started using right away. NetBeans IDE consistently allows us to quickly introduce new technologies into our development team."