Previous chapters have discussed NetBeans support for individual Java EE technologies and APIs. In this chapter we will develop a complete enterprise application taking advantage of most of the technologies discussed in the book, including Enterprise Java Beans, Visual Web JavaServer Faces, and the Java Persistence API.
The first thing we need to do to create our application is to create a new Enterprise Application project. Enterprise Application projects encapsulate any number of Web Application projects, EJB projects, and Application Client projects. Behind the scenes, Enterprise Application projects are deployed in an Enterprise Archive (EAR) file, which NetBeans generates automatically for us.
In order to create an Enterprise Application project, we need to go to File | New Project, select the Java EE category and the Enterprise Application project type.
We will develop an application that will manage customer information...