How to Install NetBeans IDE in Windows 10

Introduction

This article will mainly show how to install an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) tool for Java application and program development. In this context, the IDE is NetBeans where the main webpage exist in this link. In that main official webpage of the NetBeans IDE, there is a description which is informing what kind of IDE which NetBeans is. It is a tool which fits the pieces together for development environment, tooling platform and application framework.

Furthermore, it describes that Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. There is a feature for highlighting source code syntactically and semantically. It is possible in order to easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. The codes are including Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more. Moreover, Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages. Last but not least, since Apache NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE, it can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. So, the tagline Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too.

How to Install NetBeans IDE in Windows 10

The following are the steps or the sequences for installing NetBeans IDE in Windows 10 :

1. First of all, just download NetBeans. The link for downloading NetBeans IDE is available in this link. Choose the correct installer version type. In this context, it is an installer for Windows 10. The installer file will be available in the Downloads folder with the name of ‘Apache-NetBeans-13-bin-windows-x64.exe’ for an example.

2. After finishing the download process of the NetBeans IDE, just execute it. The following is the appearance of the initialization  process after double clicking the NetBeans IDE installer file :

   

3. After the installer configuration process is done as it is shown in the above image, the following image will appear :

   

   Just click the Next button to continue on the installation process.

4. After clicking the Next button, the following image will appear :

   

   Click the checkbox with the label of ‘I accept the terms in the license agreeemnt’ as in the following image :

   

   Following after, just click the Next button to proceed the installation process.

5. The installation process will continue on by displaying a window display installation as in the following image :

   

   For the installation path, by default it will point out to the ‘C:\Program Files\NetBeans-13. As for the JDK for running the NetBeans IDE, it will also check the operating system whether there is already a JDK (Java Development Kit) environment variable definition exist. If it exist, it will fill the JDK for Apache NetBeans IDE with the JDK environment variable path. For installing JDK (Java Development Kit) in Windows 10, just read the article with the title of ‘How to Install JDK Java Development Kit in Microsoft Windows 10’ in this link. If the JDK (Java Development Kit) exist, just click the Next button to continue on the installation process.

6. Continuing on the previous installation process, the following window display installation will appear :

   

   Click the Next button as it appear in the image above because there is no further additional configuration in the above window display installation.

7. In turns, it will display the following image of the window display installation as it shows the progress of it :

   

   If there is no error appear in the installation process which in the end it is an actual success, the following image will appear :