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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>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Identifying Performance Issues with the NetBeans Profiler
Index

Introduction to JavaServer faces


Before JSF existed, most Java web applications were typically developed using non-standard web application frameworks such as Apache Struts, Tapestry, Spring Web MVC, or many others. These frameworks are built on top of the Servlet and JSP standards, and automate a lot of functionality that needs to be manually coded when using these APIs directly.

Having a wide variety of web application frameworks available (at the time of writing, Wikipedia lists 31 Java web application frameworks, and this list is far from exhaustive!), often resulted in "analysis paralysis", that is, developers often spend an inordinate amount of time evaluating frameworks for their applications.

The introduction of JSF to the Java EE specification resulted in having a standard web application framework available in any Java EE compliant application server.

Note

We don't mean to imply that other web application frameworks are obsolete or that they shouldn't be used at all. However, a lot...