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Sun Microsystems launched the NetBeans open source project in 2000. The name NetBeans came from Netbeans Ceska Republika, a Czech company that Sun bought over. You guessed right that the new project was based on the code Sun acquired as the result of the purchase.
This appendix provides a quick tutorial to using NetBeans to build Java applications. NetBeans requires the JDK to work.