Obtaining NetBeans

NetBeans can be obtained by downloading it from http://www.netbeans.org.

To download NetBeans, we need to click on the Download button. Clicking on this button will take us to a page displaying all NetBeans' download bundles.

NetBeans' downloads include different NetBeans bundles that provide different levels of functionality. The following table summarizes the different NetBeans bundles available and describes the functionalities they provide.

To follow the examples in this book, either the Java EE or the All bundle is needed.

The following platforms are officially supported by NetBeans:

Additionally, NetBeans can be executed on any platform containing Java 7 or newer version. To download a version of NetBeans to be executed in one of these platforms, an OS independent of NetBeans is available.

The NetBeans download page should detect the operating system being used to access it, and the appropriate platform should be selected by default. If this is not the case, or if you are downloading NetBeans with the intention of installing it in another workstation on another platform, the correct platform can be selected from the drop down labeled appropriately enough as Platform.

Once the correct platform has been selected, we need to click on the appropriate Download button for the NetBeans bundle we wish to install; for Java EE development, we need either the Java EE, or the All bundle. NetBeans will then be downloaded to a directory of our choice.