Top 10 Reasons to Switch to NetBeans

NetBeans IDE helps you develop cross-platform desktop, mobile and web applications based on industry standards utilizing the latest technologies with our full-featured integrated development environment for Java Software Developers. Need more reasons to switch?

1. First to Support Java 5.0

NetBeans 4.0 is the first free open source IDE to support Java 5.0., which gives you access to all the new language features available with Tiger including: constructs, such as enums, generics or metadata annotations to build and edit applications without additional setup as well as autoboxing, generics and others.

2. Mobility Pack

The Mobility Pack for NetBeans 4.0 offers unmatched support for J2ME MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1 mobile development. In particular, NetBeans 4.0 offers a one-of-a-kind solution for the "device fragmentation" problem.

3. Projects Based on Ant

Project System based on Apache Ant allows you to compile, package, and deploy your NetBeans project in a server-side environment without the IDE. In addition, you can work with multiple projects at the same time and take advantage of the full integrated support for unit testing with JUnit.

4. The Profiler

The NetBeans Profiler enables CPU performance and memory profiling, memory leak detection as well as low-overhead and task-based profiling. And, all this is tightly integrated into the NetBeans IDE workflow.

5. J2EE Development

Support for J2EE development with NetBeans IDE 4.1 including a new Web Services wizard to create Web Services artifacts. In addition, you can create EJB modules and EJB Session Beans and have your deployment descriptors automatically generated. Synchronization eliminates frustrating and failed deployments from out of sync source code or out of sync deployment descriptors.

6. It's Fast

Performance rocks. It's not your mother's NetBeans.

7. Best out of box experience

Your productivity improves because you're not wasting time hunting for or validating third party plug-ins to supplement the product feature set.

8. It's Cool

NetBeans is cool. You can use it to create applications for TIVO.

9. More International Language Support

NetBeans provides you with more international language support than any other open source Java IDE. In today's business environment, a development tool with comprehensive internationalization is a must.

10. 100% Java, Product of the Year 2005

NetBeans is the First, Original and only 100% Java Open Source IDE and winner of t he Developer.com Product of the Year 2005: Open Source Tool of the Year.