The NetBeans Sources
The NetBeans source code is available under the
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) v1.0 and the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.
The source code is available in a Mercurial repository. All
development of NetBeans happens using the Mercurial server on this site,
and development proposals and decisions happen on the
public mailing lists.
You can get to the sources in several ways.
If you are interested in making a build from sources, see the
building/installation pages.
For legacy products and historical reasons, you can also
browse the old CVS repository.
So what exactly is here?
What is available here is the entire source tree and history of
the NetBeans IDE. Generally, there is a "stable" branch and a
"development branch." The development
branch is where ongoing development happens - it will be more or less
stable depending on what point
in the release cycle it is.
For a a description of the physical organization
of the sources in the Mercurial repository, see Mercurial
Repositories.
Contributing
See the
getting involved page.
