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Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7

By : David R Heffelfinger
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Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7

By: David R Heffelfinger

Overview of this book

<p>NetBeans has several features that greatly simplify Java EE development, but with many features and great flexibility, Java developers can become overwhelmed by the options available in NetBeans. This book provides step-by-step recipes that show you how to take control of the environment and make use of these features to make your enterprise Java application development more efficient and productive than ever before, so that you can concentrate on the important parts of your application.<br /><br /><em>Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7</em> takes you through the most important parts of Java EE programming and shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your development experience with clear, careful instructions and screenshots. It will show you how to use NetBeans functionality to automate many of the tedious or repetitive tasks frequently encountered when developing enterprise Java applications, freeing you up to focus on the business logic specific parts of the application. As well as showing you time-saving tricks, keyboard shortcuts, and other productivity enhancements possible with NetBeans, it will take you through the major Java EE APIs and how to get them working in the NetBeans environment.</p> <p>While focusing on NetBeans features, you will learn about developing applications using the servlet API and JSPs, including taking advantage of JSTL and developing custom JSP tags. Developing applications that take advantage of JavaServer Faces is also covered in detail, including how to generate standard JSF applications from an existing database schema. The book also covers how to easily develop elegant JSF applications by taking advantage of the PrimeFaces JSF 2.0 component library that is bundled with NetBeans.</p>

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Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7
David R Heffelfinger
Jun, 2011 | 392 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7
Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with NetBeans
Getting Started with NetBeans
Introduction
Obtaining NetBeans
Installing NetBeans
Starting NetBeans for the first time
Configuring NetBeans for Java EE development
Deploying our first application
NetBeans tips for effective development
Summary
2
Developing Web Applications with Servlets and JSPs
Developing Web Applications with Servlets and JSPs
Creating our first web application
Servlet development
Securing web applications
JSP fragments
Summary
3
Enhancing JSP Functionality with JSTL and Custom Tags
Enhancing JSP Functionality with JSTL and Custom Tags
Core JSTL tags
SQL JSTL tags
Modifying database data with the <sql:update> tag
Closing remarks about JSTL
Custom JSP tags
Summary
4
Developing Web Applications using JavaServer Faces 2.0
Developing Web Applications using JavaServer Faces 2.0
Introduction to JavaServer faces
Developing our first JSF application
Facelets templating
Composite components
Summary
5
Elegant Web Applications with PrimeFaces
Elegant Web Applications with PrimeFaces
Our first PrimeFaces project
Using PrimeFaces components in our JSF applications
Tabbed views
Wizard interfaces
More information
Summary
6
Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API
Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API
Creating our first JPA entity
Automated Generation of JPA Entities
Entity Relationships
Generating JSF applications from JPA entities
Summary
7
Implementing the Business Tier with Session Beans
Implementing the Business Tier with Session Beans
Introducing Session Beans
Creating a session bean in NetBeans
Accessing the bean from a client
Session bean transaction management
Implementing aspect oriented programming with interceptors
EJB timer service
Generating session beans from JPA entities
Summary
8
Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)
Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)
Introduction to CDI
Qualifiers
Stereotypes
Interceptor Binding Types
Summary
9
Messaging with JMS and Message Driven Beans
Messaging with JMS and Message Driven Beans
Introduction to JMS
Creating the project and JMS resources
Processing JMS messages with message driven Beans
Summary
10
SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS
SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS
Introduction to web services
Creating a simple web service
Exposing EJBs as web services
Summary
11
RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS
RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS
Generating a RESTful web service from an existing database
Testing our RESTful web service
Developing a RESTful web service client
Summary
Debugging Enterprise Applications with the NetBeans Debugger
Debugging Enterprise Applications with the NetBeans Debugger
Debugging enterprise applications
Summary
Identifying Performance Issues with the NetBeans Profiler
Identifying Performance Issues with the NetBeans Profiler
Profiling our application
Summary
Index
Index

Introduction

NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and platform. Although initially the NetBeans IDE could only be used to develop Java applications, as of version 6 NetBeans supports several programming languages, either by built-in support or by installing additional plugins. Programing languages natively supported by NetBeans include Java, JavaFX, C, C++ and PHP. Groovy, Scala, Ruby and others are supported via additional plugins

In addition to being an IDE, NetBeans is also a platform. Developers can use NetBeans' APIs to create both NetBeans plugins and standalone applications.

Note

For a brief history of Netbeans, see http://netbeans.org/about/history.html.

Although the NetBeans IDE supports several programming languages, because of its roots as a Java only IDE it is a lot more popular with this language. As a Java IDE, NetBeans has built-in support for Java SE (Standard Edition) applications, which typically run in the user's desktop or notebook computer; Java ME (Micro Edition), which typically runs in small devices such as cell phones or PDAs; and for Java EE (Enterprise Edition) applications, which typically run on "big iron" servers and can support thousands of concurrent users.

In this book, we will be focusing on the Java EE development capabilities of NetBeans, and how to take advantage of NetBeans features to help us develop Java EE applications more efficiently.

Some of the features we will cover include how NetBeans can help us speed up web application development using JSF or the Servlet API and JSPs by providing a starting point for these kind of artifacts, and how we can use the NetBeans palette to drag and drop code snippets into our JSPs, including HTML and JSP markup. We will also see how NetBeans can help us generate JPA entities from an existing database schema (JPA is the Java Persistence API, the standard Object-Relational mapping tool included with Java EE).

In addition to web development, we will also see how NetBeans allows us to easily develop Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs); and how to easily develop web services. We will also cover how to easily write both EJB and web service clients by taking advantage of some very nice NetBeans features.

Before taking advantage of all of the above NetBeans features, we of course need to have NetBeans installed, as covered in the next section.

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