NetBeans ranks as the second most popular Java IDE, and IntelliJ comes in third. However, according to the results of the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey , IntelliJ is the most popular Java IDE, ...

The NetBeans Java IDE started life as a university student project in Prague in 1996, became a commercial product in 1997, was bought by Sun in 1999, and was released to open source in 2000.

This TOTD ( T ip O f T he D ay) shows how to create a simple Java Server Faces application using NetBeans IDE 6.1 .