A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers.
You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web,
and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages
such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is
easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.
The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements,
such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features,
improved support for using the Hibernate web framework
and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration.
Build web applications using Ajax, JavaScript, and CSS.
Support for frameworks incl. JSF, Struts, Spring and Hibernate.
Full set of tools for EJB development.
Full-featured C/C++ editor, debugger, project templates,
support for multiple project configurations, remote development, and
packaging of completed projects.