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The NetBeans IDE is a free open-source Integrated Development Environment from SUN. With Netbeans, you can now use the GUI builder to prototype GUIs right in front of customers.

The free Visual Web Pack adds powerful tools to the IDE that speed up the development of web applications. It includes visual editors for rapidly building standards-based web applications using AJAX, CSS, and JSF.

The free Enterprise Pack adds all the functionality to the IDE needed for professional Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development. Write, test and debug applications using XML, BPEL, or Java web services.

NetBeans IDE works out-of-the box with Sun Application Server, Tomcat, Weblogic9 and JBoss 4, and it supports J2EE 1.4 and Java EE 5, including the JAX-RPC and JSR 109 standards.

Netbeans Supports JavaServer Faces (JSF), JavaServer Pages (JSP), Persistence Units, Struts, and the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Comes with a visual editor for deployment descriptors and an HTTP monitor to debug web applications.

Use BluePrints, templates and wizards to quickly create Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3) and JAX-WS web services.

With NetBeans UML modeling, your designers focus on the design of the application, and your developers focus on the code. First, designers and analysts design applications using UML, a standard modeling language, then developers generate source code from the UML model. Of course it works both ways: You can also update the model from changes made in the source code.

Version control is tightly integrated into the IDE's workflow: The IDE recognizes your existing CVS working directories automatically. Use the built-in CVS or get the Subversion module from the Update Center.

With NetBeans Developer Collaboration (available from the Update Center), you share whole projects and files in real time over the network. Allow your co-workers to make remote changes and watch them type and run your application. Review your partner's work and send instant messages in plain text, XML, HTML, or Java complete with syntax highlighting.