NetBeans includes a comprehensive set of features for automated refactoring, that will prove very useful to developers.

In this chapter we will create examples that use NetBeans to move, extract, and create classes, methods, and interfaces.

Be warned that many of the refactoring techniques presented in this chapter might break some code. NetBeans, and other IDEs for that matter too, make it easier to revert changes but of course be wary of things going wrong.

With that in mind, let's dig in.