Java Reference
In-Depth Information
For a brief history of NetBeans, see
http://netbeans.org/
Although the NetBeans IDE supports several programming languages, because
of its roots as a Java only IDE it is more widely used and known within the Java
community. As a Java IDE, NetBeans has built-in support for Java SE (Standard
Edition) applications, which typically run on a user's desktop or notebook computer;
Java ME (Micro Edition) applications, which typically run on 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 topic, 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
JavaServer Faces
(
JSF
), the standard Java EE
component based web framework by providing a starting point for these kinds of
artifacts. We will also see how NetBeans can help us generate
Java Persistence API
(
JPA
) entities from an existing database schema (JPA is the standard object-relational
mapping tool included with Java EE).
In addition to web development, we will 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 aforementioned NetBeans features, we of course
need to have NetBeans installed, as covered in the next section.
