Creating a New Project
The JDK and NetBeans are downloaded as installation wizards that set up the software on your system. You can install the software in any folder and menu group you like, but it’s best to stick with the default setup options unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
When you run NetBeans for the first time after installation, you see a start page that displays links to news and programming tutorials (see Figure A.1). You can read these within the IDE using NetBeans’ built-in web browser.
Figure A.1. The NetBeans user interface.
A NetBeans project consists of a set of related Java classes, files used by those classes, ...
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