Chapter 1, Getting Started with NetBeans, provides an introduction to NetBeans, giving time-saving tips and tricks that will result in more efficient development of Java applications.

Chapter 2, Developing Web Applications Using JavaServer Faces 2.2, explains how NetBeans can help us easily develop web applications that take advantage of the JavaServer Faces 2.2 framework.

Chapter 3, JSF Component Libraries, covers how NetBeans can help us easily develop JSF applications using popular component libraries such as PrimeFaces, RichFaces, and ICEfaces.

Chapter 4, Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API, explains how NetBeans allows us to easily develop applications taking advantage of the Java Persistence API (JPA), including how to automatically generate JPA entities from existing schemas. This chapter also covers how complete web-based applications can be generated with a few clicks from an existing database schema.

Chapter 5, Implementing the Business Tier with Session Beans, discusses how NetBeans simplifies EJB 3.1 session bean development.

Chapter 6, Contexts and Dependency Injection, discusses how the CDI API introduced in Java EE 6 can help us integrate the different layers of our application.

Chapter 7, Messaging with JMS and Message-driven Beans, explains Java EE messaging technologies such as the Java Message Service (JMS) and Message-driven Beans (MDB), covering NetBeans' features that simplify application development taking advantage of these APIs.

Chapter 8, Java API for JSON Processing, explains how to process JSON data using the new JSON-P Java EE API.

Chapter 9, Java API for WebSocket, explains how to use the new Java API for WebSocket to develop web-based applications featuring full duplex communication between the browser and the server.

Chapter 10, RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS, covers RESTful web services with the Java API for RESTful Web Services, including coverage of how NetBeans can automatically generate RESTful web services and both Java and JavaScript RESTful web service clients.

Chapter 11, SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS, explains how NetBeans can help us easily develop SOAP web services based on the Java API for the XML Web Services (JAX-WS) API.

You need Java Development Kit (JDK) version 7.0 or newer and NetBeans 8.0 or newer Java EE edition.

If you are a Java developer who wishes to develop Java EE applications while taking advantage of NetBeans' functionality to automate repetitive tasks and ease your software development efforts, this is the book for you. Familiarity with NetBeans or Java EE is not assumed.

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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "NetBeans uses the JAVA_HOME environment variable to populate the JDK's directory location."

A block of code is set as follows:

<package com.ensode.flowscope.namedbeans;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.faces.flow.FlowScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
@FlowScoped("registration")
public class RegistrationBean {
...

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

package com.ensode.flowscope.namedbeans;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.faces.flow.FlowScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
@FlowScoped("registration")
public class RegistrationBean {
...

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

chmod +x filename.sh

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: " To download NetBeans, we need to click on the Download button."

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