The general update center, nbextras.org,
is an unofficial update center for NetBeans IDE.
It is unofficial in the sense that this server is neither attached to nor endorsed by
by the NetBeans open source project.
Since the general update center is
unofficial, and operated by volunteers, there is no
guarantee that it will exist continuously and forever. At the
time of writing, the general update center existed and
functioned as described below.
nbextras.org is
not preconfigured in the IDE—to get
new modules and updates from the IDE, the user has to
configure the IDE manually.
This server also has a website. New modules added to the
update center are announced by the gatekeepers, a group
of volunteers from the NetBeans user community. Others can provide
feedback, appraisals, and critcism about those modules by adding
their comments to the news entry on nbextras.org.