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Netbeans is a free, open source IDE for developing software in Java. It's been around for almost 15 years, having gotten its start around the time Java began. Version 7.0 is about to be released, and I got my hands on the Beta release of this new version. In the past I've generally preferred Eclipse for my Java development—not because I felt it was necessarily better, but simply it's what I used at various jobs and grew accustomed to. So I didn't spend much time on NetBeans. But they do have a lot in common. One common element is that …