A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. All the tools needed to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java platform, as well as with C/C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy.

NetBeans IDE 7.0 introduces language support for development to the proposed Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 developer preview, support for GlassFish 3.1, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Databse, Maven 3, HTML 5 and more.

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Highlights

-Java Desktop Applications
Create professional standards-based user interface with the NetBeans Swing GUI Builder. Save years of work by building Java Swing desktop applications with the NetBeans Platform framework.

-Java Enterprise and Web Applications
Build web applications using CSS, JavaScript, and JSP: Support for frameworks includes JSF (Facelets), Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and a full set of tools for Java EE 6, CDI, GlassFish 3, EJB, and web services development.

-Dynamic Languages
Benefit from one combined tool that supports PHP (Zend and Symfony), CSS, Groovy and Grails, and JavaScript.

-C and C++ Development
Edit, profile, and debug C/C++ applications, and make the most of multiple project configurations, remote development, and packaging.

-Visual Mobile Development
Create, test and debug applications that run on mobile phones, set-top boxes, and PDAs using JavaFX Mobile and the Java ME SDK 3.0 Platform.