Developing General Java Applications The following short tutorial takes you through some of the basic steps of developing a Java SE application in NetBeans IDE. This tutorial assumes you already have some familiarity with developing Java applications. Along the way, you will see some of the IDE features that simplify application development. You will create an application that converts several words into a single word that contains one letter from each of the other words. The resulting word is called an acrostic. This tutorial takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. If you would like to do a quicker "Hello World" tutorial, see the NetBeans IDE Java Quick Start Tutorial. Contents Content on this page applies to NetBeans IDE 7.4 and 8.0 Project Setup Creating and Editing Java Source Code Compiling and Running the Application Testing and Debugging the Application Building, Running, and Distributing the Application Other Common Tasks Next Steps To complete this tutori