Installing the NetBeans IDE

NetBeans can be downloaded from https://netbeans.org/downloads/. The distribution requires a valid JDK to be already installed on your platform. At the time of this writing, I used JDK 7 Update 45, but any JDK 7 (or higher) version would be fine. There are several distribution bundles; you will need to select the Java EE bundle.

Installing the NetBeans IDE

The latest version at the time of this writing was NetBeans 7.4, which introduced significant new features, including extended HTML5 and JavaScript support. For the first time, NetBeans also included editing and code completion support for the Ext JS framework.

To install the software, simply download ...

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