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Today let's see what are the most popular Integrated Development Environments (IDE) that you can use for Java development. IDE is a software application which enables developers to more easily write, debug their codes. As a example many IDEs have features like syntax highlighting, code completion suggestions and formatting code which makes programmers work more easy. But an IDE is not just a source code editor , it consists of a debugger and automation tools . You may be a Windows user, Mac OS user or a Linux user... there are IDEs to compile Java on every platform. And the most popular IDEs such as Eclipse and Netbeans are not only free and opensource but also they are cross-platform IDEs. ( cross -platform means runs on many platforms) Free Java IDEs for Windows JCreator LE -  www.jcreator.org This IDE is for beginners use and there is JCreator Pro version with some more features, but it is not free. Free Java IDEs for Mac OS X XCode -  Mac App Store T...

First, let's see how to run a Java Program using a text editor like Notepad and command prompt and after that let's move on to the NetBeans I.D.E. Java is an Object Oriented, High-level programming language and a computing platform which was released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. An important feature of Java is, it is platform independence. (Platform Independence means once a program is compiled then it can be run on any platform such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. ) To run Java on your machine you have to install Java Development Kit  (JDK). You can download JDK and NetBeans  from this link . When you download JDK, you get the Java Runtime Environment(JRE) which consists of Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java core classes and Java libraries. And we have to set the Java bin path to the path variable. 1st Step :     C Drive -> Program Files -> Java -> jdk -> bin-> copy the path . (when you click on the bar with the folder icon which contains...

මුලින්ම අපි notepad වගේ text editor එකක් සහ command prompt එක use කරලා අපේ පලවෙනි Java program එක run කරමු. පසුව NetBeans I.D.E. එක use කරන ආකාරය බලමු. Java ගැන පොඩ්ඩක් කතා කලොත් Java කියන්නේ Object Oriented, High-level programming language එකක්. Java ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න ඔබේ පරිගණකයේ Java Development Kit  (JDK) install කර තිබීම අත්‍යවශයි. JDK හා NetBeans   මේ ලින්ක් එකෙන් download කරගන්න පුළුවන්. JDK download කරගත් විට Virtual Machine (JVM), Java core core classes සහ Java libraries අන්තර්ගත වෙන Java Runtime Environment(JRE) එක ඔබට ලබාගැනීමට පුළුවනි. Java  ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න නම් Java bin path එක path-variable එකට set කරගන්න ඕනි. 1 පියවර :   C Drive -> Program Files -> Java -> jdk -> bin-> path එක copy කරගන්න . (folder icon එකක් එක්ක උඩින්ම මේ path එක තියෙන line එකේ click කලාම path එක copy කරගන්න පුළුවන්) 2  පියවර : Computer -> Properties -> Advanced system settings -> Environment variables... -> select 'path' variab...