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Andersen - 19 Dec 2005 09:40 GMT

I thought NetBeans is just an IDE. Is it also some kind of architecture,
or does it have anything to do with some concrete libraries, code, or
architecture?

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Thomas Kellerer - 19 Dec 2005 10:20 GMT

> I thought NetBeans is just an IDE. Is it also some kind of architecture,
> or does it have anything to do with some concrete libraries, code, or
> architecture?

It's both. There is a thing called the "NetBeans platform" which is
essentially a framework to build applications.

The NetBeans IDE is built on top of that platform. There are some
(commercial) applications that are also built with the NetBeans platform

More information can be found here:

http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/

Thomas

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Alan Krueger - 22 Dec 2005 03:56 GMT

>> I thought NetBeans is just an IDE. Is it also some kind of
>> architecture, or does it have anything to do with some concrete
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> The NetBeans IDE is built on top of that platform. There are some
> (commercial) applications that are also built with the NetBeans platform

The Eclipse Platform is similar in that regard.

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ricky.clarkson@gmail.com - 19 Dec 2005 13:00 GMT

Andersen,

You might be confusing Netbeans with Javabeans, which is a way of
pretending that reflection is good for the code:

http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/index.jsp

Ricky.

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Hiran Chaudhuri - 23 Dec 2005 07:54 GMT

>I thought NetBeans is just an IDE. Is it also some kind of architecture, or
>does it have anything to do with some concrete libraries, code, or
>architecture?

Netbeans is promoted being both a platform and an IDE. The platform allows
you to create application using the netbeans architecture/infrastructure/you
name it. The IDE is a big sample application....

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