Chapter 1 ■ the Different faCes of Java: Create a Java 9 Development Workstation
Installing the Oracle NetBeans 9.0 (Development) IDE
Since NetBeans 9 is still in development, I am going to show you how I got the NetBeans 9 release from
Oracle, as well as in the next section how the general public will eventually get the NetBeans 9 IDE from
Apache. In this way you will know all of the ways to download and install NetBeans 9. The Oracle repository
(which will exist until the official transfer of the software to Apache) is located at bits.netbeans.org/
download/trunk/nightly/latest/ and looks like the original NetBeans download page that you are all familiar
with, shown in Figure 1-10. I would recommend using the simplest (smallest) Java SE version of the software,
since it includes the three APIs (NetBeans, Java and JavaFX) which we are covering in this book. Click the
first Download (Free, 97MB) button, and start the NetBeans download process.
Figure 1-10. The Oracle NetBeans 9.0 IDE download page located at bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/
nightly/latest/
Once this installation file downloads, right-click on it, and select Run as Administrator (Superuser on
Linux), and you will see the first Welcome dialog, seen at the top-left of the six dialog screenshot, shown in
Figure 1-11.