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NetBeans IDE 6.8 Tip:

Use the Team > Kenai > Open Kenai Project menu and search for "samples catalog" to access all these projects right in your IDE!

(No kenai.com registration is required.)

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NetBeans IDE not only provides great productivity tools, but also includes sample applications that show you complex technologies at work. These samples are provided as ready-to-use NetBeans IDE projects and each comes with an informative readme file so you can get started quickly — check them out!

How to Get the Samples

All samples listed below are stored in the NetBeans IDE Samples Catalog on Project Kenai. You can either download a sample by clicking the Download link in the tree or check out sources from the Kenai's project repository. For downloading or checking out sources, no Kenai.com registration is required!

If you are using NetBeans IDE 6.7 or 6.8, open these samples directly from Project Kenai in the IDE! Follow the quick tip on the right, or read this tutorial on retrieving sources from the Kenai project's repository where our samples are hosted.

If you are using NetBeans IDE 6.5 or older, click one of the download links below to get the NetBeans-ready project as a zip file. Decompress the zip file and use File > Open Project to access the sample.

The NetBeans Sample Project Catalog

The samples for the current version of the IDE are listed in the main "Samples" section. Older samples, and samples for development builds, are archived under their version number.

  • NetBeans IDE 6.5
    • Java
      • default icon Sample: CarPreview [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: TwitterSwingClient [Download]
        Description: This is a simple, graphical, REST-based client that displays Twitter public timeline messages.
    • JavaEE
    • Mobile
      • default icon Sample: FilebrowserExample [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: PIMBrowserExample [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: SMSComposerExample [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: SplashScreenExample [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: TableItem [Download]
        Description: todo
      • default icon Sample: WaitScreenExample [Download]
        Description: todo
    • Platform
      • default icon Sample: newhtmlsnippets [Download]
        Description: todo
    • Web
  • NetBeans IDE 6.7
    • JavaEE
      • default icon Sample: NewsApp solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: NewsApp Solution project for NetBeans tutorial to create an EJB with a Message-Driven Bean and Session Bean using NetBeans IDE 6.7
    • Web
      • default icon Sample: DVDStore.zip [Download]
        Description: Zip archive of DVDStore application. This sample is the solution for the tutorial that uses NetBeans IDE 6.7.
  • Samples
    • CPlusPlus
      • default icon Sample: JNIDemo [Download]
        Description: Sample code shows Java Native Interface (JNI) application.
    • Java
      • default icon Sample: Enabling Java Web Start [Download]
        Description: tutorial.
      • default icon Sample: DVDStoreAdmin-Ant solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: Zip archive containing solution to tutorial to create a Swing application using Hibernate
      • default icon Sample: DVDStoreAdmin-Maven solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: Zip archive containing solution to tutorial to create a Maven Swing application
      • default icon Sample: Debugging Samples zip archive [Download]
        Description: Zip archive containing sample projects used to demonstrate multithreaded application debugging and deadlock detection using NetBeans
      • default icon Sample: Hello 3D World zip archive [Download]
        Description: How to get started with 3-D Java games using the jMonkeyEngine, and how to package a Java project (incl. native libraries) into one JAR.
      • default icon Sample: JUnitSampleSol zip archive [Download]
        Description: Zip archive containing sample projects used to demonstrate creating and running JUnit tests in NetBeans
    • JavaEE
      • default icon Sample: DVDStore EE6 solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: zip archive of the Java EE 6 version of the solution to the DVDStore application
      • default icon Sample: EnterpriseAppClient zip archive [Download]
        Description: Zip archive containing solutions to the NetBeans tutorial on working with enterprise application clients
      • default icon Sample: MavenEnterpriseApp solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: zip archive of the Java EE 6 version of the solution to the Maven Enterprise application
      • default icon Sample: NewsApp EE6 solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: zip archive of the Java EE 6 version of the solution to the NewsApp enterprise application
      • default icon Sample: NewsApp solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: NewsApp Solution project for NetBeans tutorial to create an EJB with a Message-Driven Bean and Session Bean accessed via servlet
      • default icon Sample: SimpleEE6App solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: zip archive of the Java EE 6 version of the solution to the SimpleEE6App enterprise application
      • default icon Sample: Translator [Download]
        Description: Sample project for using Zembly Web API Gateway plugin for NetBeans IDE
      • default icon Sample: ZooApp solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: ZooApp Solution project for NetBeans tutorial that demonstrates using Java Persistence
      • ecommerce
        • default icon Sample: AffableBean_snapshot1.zip [Download]
          Description: The snapshot of the project after completing the fourth unit, Preparing Views for the Presentation Layer.
        • default icon Sample: AffableBean_snapshot2.zip [Download]
          Description: The snapshot of the project after completing the fifth unit, Working with the Deployment Descriptor.
    • Mobile
      • default icon Sample: TableItem [Download]
        Description: TableItem zip archive containing solution project for NetBeans tutorial that demonstartes mobile features.
      • default icon Sample: WaitScreenExample [Download]
        Description: WaitScreenExample zip archive containing solution project for NetBeans that demonstartes the usage of mobility features of the IDE.
    • Web
      • default icon Sample: ConsultingAgency [Download]
        Description: ConsultingAgency zip archive containing solution project for NetBeans.This sample demonstartes web technology usage.
      • default icon Sample: ConsultingAgencyJSF20.zip [Download]
        Description: The solution project for the Generating a JavaServer Faces 2.0 CRUD Application from a Database tutorial [ http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/jsf20-crud.html ]
      • default icon Sample: CustomerBook solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: CustomerBook Solution project for NetBeans tutorial to create an web application that uses Java Persistance
      • default icon Sample: DVDStore solution zip archive [Download]
        Description: DVDStore zip archive containing solution project for NetBeans tutorial that uses Hibernate in a web application
      • default icon Sample: DojoTreeSample.zip [Download]
        Description: Sample application used with: Connecting a Dojo Tree to an ArrayList using JSON
      • default icon Sample: HelloGWT.zip [Download]
        Description: A working sample application for the Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit tutorial [ http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps-gwt.html ]
      • default icon Sample: HelloSpring [Download]
        Description: HelloSpring zip archive containing solution project for NetBeans that demonstrates basics of the Spring framework
      • default icon Sample: IFPWAFCAD.zip [Download]
        Description: The complete sample application for the Creating a Simple Web Application Using a MySQL Database tutorial [ http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/mysql-webapp.html ]
      • default icon Sample: MyAjaxApp [Download]
        Description: MyAjaxAppzip archive containing solution project for NetBeans that demonstrates basics of the Ajax technology
      • default icon Sample: MyStrutsApp.zip [Download]
        Description: Sample application for the Struts tutorial: netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps-struts.html

Where to Find More Samples

In addition to the samples listed in the tree on this page, there are plenty of samples bundled with the IDE. To open the IDE bundled samples, choose File > New Project and select the Samples category.