In previous blog Creating J2ee Modules in NetBeans IDE we got the basic knowledge about creating EJB-Module in NetBeans IDE.... more »

In previous blog Creating Message Driven Beans in NetBeans we learned about developing a Message Driven Bean in NetBeans IDE. Here we will learn how to call it using features of NetBeans IDE.... more »

A nasty catfight erupted around the clichéd Netbeans vs Eclipse topic. As always, the old SWT grudge was thrown in there. Personally, as an RCP developer working for a consulting company, SWT has given us the benefit of doing business with traditional Microsoft companies who are blissfully unaware that they are using Java applications.... more »

Been test-driving more server-side packages. After playing around with NBXDoclet and JBoss-IDE I’ve decided to use Hibernate Annotations and the plug Hibernate Tools into NetBeans using the Ant Tasks.... more »

NetBeans IDE was started as a student project in the Czech Republic around November 2001. But later Sun Microsystems acquired it as an open source project. This was first sponsored open source project of Sun Microsystems. Now it is managed by netbeans.org an independent organization.... more »

Eclipse is a good Java development environment, But Eclipse itself does’nt support Enterprise Applications. We need to add plugins to it and configure for it. But NetBeans IDE has several features which are very useful for a beginner who is learning Enterprise Applications. It has inbuilt support of Sun Application Server. You need not to configure Application Server in IDE.... more »

NetBeans IDE has features for running enterprise applications. An Enterprise Application needs an application server or J2EE container to deploy the jar/war files. By default NetBeans come with a Sun’s application server but other application servers can be configured as well.... more »

NetBeans IDE is used for creating and running applications. Here I will describe how to create a Enterprise Application using NetBeans... more »

Here I am assuming that you can add a J2EE Module in NetBeans IDE. Suppose we have created a J2EE Enterprise Application that have two J2EE modules named JavaTipsSessionBean-EJbModule and JavaTipsSessionBean-WebModule. So in this step we will add a stateless session bean to the EJB module. Right click on SessionBean EJB-Module and select Session Bean.... more »

Every EJB has some business methods that can be called after looking up the EJB by it’s JNDI name. To call a business method it should be declared in Remote Interface and the related EJB should have it’s definition. Manually adding a method to a EJB is not an easy task for a J2EE programmer. NetBeans provides an easy way for adding a business method to EJB so that it will be added to Remote Interface and EJB automatically. After adding business method you just have to write business logic in EJB class. Other configuration task will be handled by NetBeans.... more »