This is a list of books that may help you get started. Some of them are somewhat old, but NetBeans main concepts have not evolved that much, and most of them are still up to date.

The dzone Essential NetBeans Platform Refcard may be of interest to you.

Our wiki’s NetBeans Developer FAQ has interesting "tricks" you may want to take a look at. NetBeans APIs idioms is also useful to know the answers to many frequent questions.

Some blogs you may find of interest:

We have a YouTube channel with many videos you may want to check.

The community has also contributed documentation along the years. Let us know if you want yours included here!

We’ve moved the API list to the end of this page.

We have ported the NetBeans Tutorials to this site, but some of the tutorials need a review.

You can help us improve the tutorials following these contribution guidelines.

The NetBeans module system is very extensible, meaning that you can add features through different mechanisms: the Java’s service provider interface, the Lookup API (that also works with the service provider interface) and the concept of "layers" (that works in a similar way to the Windows registry).

You can use Maven and the NetBeans Platform to build great applications. Here’re some tutorials to get you started:

You can use OSGi modules within a NetBeans Platform.

When building applications on top of the NetBeans Platform you want, of course, to test things. Also to diagnose what’s going on. These are of help:

Of course, the NetBeans Platform has many features to build top-noch editors (that’s because we build the NetBeans IDE on top of the platform :-)). Here’s a list of tutorials that you can use to build your own editors.

The NetBeans Platform has a powerful library (called the "NetBeans Visual Library") that you can use to build complex user-interactive visualizations.

Since we use the NetBeans Platform to build the NetBeans IDE, we use objects known as "Projects" to represent Java, PHP or C/C++ "projects".

You can use "projects" to represent a set of files or concepts organized in a hierarchy. Be either the list of rails in a train station, or a hierarchy of parts of a component you’re designing.

These tutorials explain how to extend existing project types or to create your own.

We use "templates" to create files with some predefined content.

When you select an object in your application, the "Property Editor" window automatically shows the properties of the object. Be it a plane, a train or a satellite.

The IDE has specific components that help you create quick search fields, ribbon bars and wizards.

These are tutorials on how to use Ant and Maven with the NetBeans Platform.