Geertjan Wielenga invited to me to share five of my favorite NetBeans features with Oracle. Here is the article that I wrote on those features. When using a great IDE like NetBeans, it is hard to choose just five great features. I've been using NetBeans quite a few years now, and it just continues to get better with each release. If you are a developer and have not yet tried NetBeans, I suggest that you give it a try...I think you'll be pleased.
http://netbeans.dzone.com/articles/5-favorite-netbeans-features-joshjuneau