In this chapter, we looked at the typical tasks that a developer does on a day-to-day basis when writing applications. We saw how NetBeans can help us to run and debug applications and how to profile applications and write tests for them. Finally, we took a brief look at TDD, and saw how the Red-Green-Refactor cycle can be used to help us develop more stable applications.

In the next chapter, we'll look at managing services within NetBeans and see how we can manage and interact with them all from within the NetBeans IDE.