Offering a pure Java technology development environment, NetBeans is an open-source, cross-platform IDE that gives you everything you need to easily develop Java technology-based desktop, server, Web, and mobile applications.

- Complete application development support for the Java platform.

- Provides Java language refactoring support that lets developers make sweeping changes to code in one simple step.

- Includes a new project system based on Apache Ant, which simplifies the integration of NetBeans projects in team environments.