ANetBeans Versions

NetBeans IDE Versions

NetBeans has a long history in the Java community. It started as a student project in 1996 with its first prerelease in 1997. It was originally known as Xelfi prior to being renamed NetBeans in 1998. From the start it was written completely in Java and ran on all of the supported Java platforms—thus, it was true to the spirit of Java. In late 1999 Sun Microsystems acquired NetBeans. For a brief period NetBeans was renamed to Forte for Java. At the time Sun had also purchased Forte and integrated Forte’s tools into NetBeans. In the summer of 2000 Sun open-sourced NetBeans, and netbeans.org went public.

From 2004 to 2007 Sun Microsystems also released and supported commercial variants of NetBeans named Java ...

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