Thread: An IDE software application

An IDE is a software application that provides comprehensive acilities to computer
programmers for software development. IDEs are designed to maximise programmer productivity. NetBeans is a free, open-source IDE for software developers. It consists of all the tools used to create professional desktop, enterprise, Web, and mobile applications with the Java language, ClC++, and Ruby. The NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.