NetBeans Platform

Save yourself a lot of time and energy in rich-client application development- reuse features from the IDE's core by basing your application on the free NetBeans Platform.

Developing applications on top of the NetBeans Platform means you are developing on top of the NetBeans IDE's core. The NetBeans Platform is a generic desktop application, and most desktop applications have common requirements - menus, document management, settings and so forth.

NetBeans Platform was designed to let you develop your own applications on the NetBeans IDE's engine.

Instead of writing the same code over and over again, write modules to implement what you need, bundle them up with the NetBeans Platform, and you have a beautiful, branded, cross-platform application.

NetBeans-based applications are write-once, run-anywhere. You get prebuilt components for free and you solve common problems by reusing, mixing, and matching them. Use the platform and the modules you develop as the basis for multiple applications that share common logic. The NetBeans Platform is a solid foundation and set of standards for clear design.

Key Features:

• User interface management: Windows, menus, toolbars, and other presentation components provided.


• Data and presentation management: Rich toolset for data presentation and manipulation.


• Setting management: Easy saving and restoring of settings, even complex business objects.


• Graphical Editing: Create drag and drop, graphical views of data effortlessly.


• The Editor: Powerful toolset for building custom editors.


• The Wizard framework: Build user-friendly Wizards easily.


• Storage management: Abstraction of file-based data access.


• Additional components: Versioning support, specialized editors, UI components, remote data access, and more.


• Internet-based update delivery: Use Java Web Start to deliver custom module sets based on user roles.

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