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The screenshots in this book were taken with the All Pack. NetBeans may look slightly different if the Java Pack is used, particularly, some menu items might be missing. To download a version of NetBeans to be used under one of these platforms, an OS independent version of NetBeans is available for download.

Although the OS-independent version of NetBeans can be executed in all of the supported platforms, it is recommended to obtain the platform-specific version of NetBeans for your platform. The NetBeans download page should detect the operating system being used to access it, and the appropriate platform should be selected by default. If this is not the case, or if you are downloading NetBeans with the intention of installing it in another workstation on another platform, the correct platform can be selected from the drop-down labeled, appropriately enough, Platform.

Once the correct platform has been selected, we need to click on the appropriate download button for the NetBeans pack we wish to install; for Java EE development, we need either the Java or the All Pack. NetBeans will then be downloaded to a directory of our choosing. Java EE applications need to be deployed to an application server. GlassFish is a percent Java EE compliant application server.

We will be using the bundled GlassFish application server to deploy and execute our examples. Since this book is aimed at experienced Java Developers, we will not spend much time explaining how to install and configure the JDK, since we can safely assume the target market for the book more than likely has a JDK installed. NetBeans installation varies slightly between the supported platforms. In the following few sections we'll look at how to install NetBeans on each supported platform.

For Microsoft Windows platforms, NetBeans is downloaded as an executable file named something like netbeans To install NetBeans on Windows platforms, simply navigate to the folder where NetBeans was installed and double-click on the executable file that was downloaded.

For Mac OS X, the downloaded file is called something like netbeans In order to install NetBeans, navigate to the location where the file was downloaded and double-click on it. These four packages need to be installed individually; they can be installed by simply double-clicking on each one of them. Please note that GlassFish must be installed before. For Linux and Solaris, NetBeans is downloaded in the form of a shell script.

The name of the file will be something like netbeans Before NetBeans can be installed in these platforms, the downloaded file needs to be made executable, this can be done in the command line by navigating to the directory where the NetBeans installer was downloaded and executing the following command:. Substitute filename. Again, substitute filename. For other platforms, NetBeans can be downloaded as a platform independent zip file. The name of the zip file will be something like netbeans To install NetBeans on one of these platforms, simply extract the zip file to any suitable directory.

Even though the way to execute the installer varies slightly between platforms, the installer behaves in a similar way between all of them. One exception is the Mac OS X installer. Another exception is the platform-independent zip file; in this case there is essentially no installer. Installing this version of NetBeans consists of extracting the zip file to any suitable directory.

After executing the NetBeans installation file for our platform, we should see a window similar to the one illustrated in the following screenshot:. The packs shown may vary depending on the NetBeans pack that was downloaded, the previous screen shot is for the All pack. NetBeans is dual licensed. We can either select new values for these or take the provided defaults.

The installer will now prompt us for an installation directory, JDK and other information for the GlassFish 2 application server, usually the defaults are sensible, but we can change them if we have a reason to.

After NetBeans and all related components have been installed, the installer indicates a successful installation. We should see the NetBeans splash screen while it is starting up. NetBeans defaults to showing this start page every time it is started, if we don't wish for this page to be displayed automatically every time NetBeans is started, we can disable this behavior by unchecking the checkbox labeled Show on Startup at the bottom of the page.

We can always get the start page back by going to Help Start Page. We can also integrate NetBeans with several versions of Tomcat. To do so, we need to take the following steps:. In this section we will illustrate how to integrate NetBeans with JBoss 4.

The procedure is very similar for other application servers or servlet containers. First, we need to click on the tab labeled Services , it can be found at the top-right of the NetBeans main window. Next, we need to right-click on the node labeled Servers in the tree inside the Services tab, and select Add Server If more than one driver class is found in the JAR file, the correct one can be selected from the drop-down menu labeled Driver Class.

We need to click the OK button to add the driver to NetBeans. After clicking the OK button, NetBeans may ask us to select a database schema. We can connect to it by right-clicking on it, selecting Connect from the resulting pop-up, then entering our username and password for the database if we chose not to allow NetBeans to "remember" the password when we added the database. To make sure everything is configured correctly, we will now deploy one of the sample applications to the integrated GlassFish application server that comes with NetBeans.

Once we have selected Visual JSF from the categories list, a list of projects is displayed in the Projects list. For this example we need to select the Corporate Travel Center project. You will now add an EJB annotation to use dependency injection to obtain a reference to the MessageFacade session bean. You will also call the findAll and create methods that are exposed in the facade.

Notice that the postMessage method returns the string "theend". In this application, no navigation rules are configured in faces-config. Instead, the navigation handler will try to locate a suitable page in the application. In this case, the navigation handler will try to locate a page named theend. In this exercise you will make some simple changes to the index. You will add a form with an input text field and a button. The postMessage method will return "theend", and the navigation handler will look for a page named theend.

In this exercise you will create the JSF page theend. The page will be displayed when the user clicks the Post Message button in index.

When you choose Run, the IDE builds and deploys the application and opens index. When you click Post Message, the message is saved to the database and the number of messages is retrieved and displayed. Download a zip archive of the finished project. When you click Finish, the IDE initializes the local folder as a Subversion repository and checks out the project sources. Send Feedback on This Tutorial. To send comments and suggestions, get support, and keep informed on the latest developments on the NetBeans IDE Java EE development features, join the nbj2ee mailing list.

Apache NetBeans. Latest release. To follow this tutorial, you need the following software and resources. Creating the Web Application Project In this exercise you create a simple web application. Type SimpleEE6App for the project name and set the project location. Select JavaServer Faces in the Frameworks pane. Click Finish. Creating the Entity Class and Session Facade In this section you will create an entity class and a session facade for the entity class.

Creating the Entity Class In this exercise you will use the New Entity Class wizard to create a simple persistent entity class. Select Entity Class from the Persistence category. Type Message for the Class Name. Type entities for the Package. Select Create Persistence Unit. Click Finish in the New Entity Class wizard. In the editor, add the message field in bold below the id field. The IDE generates getter and setter methods for the field message. Creating the Session Facade In this exercise you will use a wizard to create a stateless session facade for the Message entity.

Select the Message entity and click Add. Type boundary for the package. Creating the Managed Bean In this exercise you will create a simple JSF managed bean that is used to access the session facade. Type MessageView for the Class Name. Type my. Type MessageView for the Name that will be used for the managed bean. This book shows you how to use NetBeans functionality to automate many of the tedious or repetitive tasks frequently encountered when developing enterprise Java applications, freeing up the developer to focus on the business logic specific parts of the application.

The book is aimed at Java developers who wish to develop Java EE applications while taking advantage of NetBeans functionality to automate repetitive tasks and to ease their software development efforts. Familiarity with Java EE is not assumed. It's also ideal for developers who already have experience with the Java EE platform but would like to learn more about the new Java EE 7 features by analyzing fully functional sample applications using the new application server WildFly.

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