Open the Netbeans software and open the Java project you want to use to connect to the database. When you open a project, a list of files and folders display in the left navigation panel.

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.

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