Access to Project Hosting and Management

The NetBeans IDE is well integrated with Project Kenai, a collaborative environment where developers can host open-source projects. With Kenai and the NetBeans IDE, a team of developers is able to create projects, check out, edit, debug, discuss, and commit code, all through one easy-to-use interface.
Working as a Team Using NetBeans IDE

Developer Collaboration on Kenai.com 

Login to Kenai.com and create a new team project from within the IDE, or share an existing project. Invite team members and keep in touch: Kenai.com chat rooms and presence service for project members are all smoothly integrated into the IDE. You can also search for and join other Kenai-hosted projects from the IDE's Kenai window.

Integrated File Version Control

The NetBeans IDE makes accessing CVS, Mercurial, or Subversion repositories easy. Integrated version control access to Kenai.com is even pre-configured for Subversion and Mercurial: Get sources for Kenai-hosted projects, and they open right in the IDE.

Instant Messaging and Online Presence 

Check online status of team members and start a private chat with other Kenai users where ever their names appear in the IDE: the Kenai dashboard, issue reports, file version history or annotations. It's easy to add links to code, files, issues, and stack traces for shared projects to chat messages. The project chat room also keeps you informed by showing auto notifications for changed files and issues.

Integrated Issue Tracker 

Use the NetBeans IDE with Kenai.com projects to take advantage of automatic repository set-up, or configure it to use your own Jira or BugZilla repository.

The user-friendly integration between version control systems and issue trackers allows you to commit code changes, and update the associated issue status in one step. Create new issues and edit existing issues; sort and filter issues and save queries; create patches and add attachments — all from inside the IDE.

The new Jira plugin is downloaded automatically when you use any Jira feature for the first time. The Jira issue tracker is well integrated into the NetBeans task list and it's easy to submit work logs for an issue.

Integrated Issue/Editor Navigation 

Not only do you navigate easily between issues, but also between the editor and the issue tracker: Click a stacktrace attached to an issue to jump directly to the affected line in the source code.

Apply patches attached to issues directly to the file in question. Open the issue by clicking any reference in the IDE: The reference can be in the source code or comments, in versioning annotations, in a commit message, etc.