Open Safari and head to Oracle’s Downloads page.Click on Java SE. Click on the Download icon under NetBeans with JDK 8. You’ll want a programming environment, and Netbeans is a good one.

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit -based unit tests . However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE ...

Oracle has released NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2! Some developers might be disappointed with the discontinuation of official Ruby support, or the fact that JUnit is no longer being bundled by default.