Heffelfinger D.R. Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7

Packt Publishing, 2011. — 392 p.Java EE 6, the latest version of the Java EE specification, adds several new features to simplify enterprise application development. New versions of existing Java EE APIs have been included in this latest version of Java EE. JSF 2.0 greatly simplifies web application development. JPA 2.0 features a new criteria API and several other enhancements. EJB session beans have been enhanced to support asynchronous method calls as well as a few other enhancements. Servlet 3.0 adds several new features such as additional method calls and making the web.xml deployment descriptor optional. Additionally, few new APIs have been added to Java EE, including JAX-RS, which simplifies RESTful web service development, and CDI, which helps integrate the different layers in a typical enterprise application.
NetBeans has been updated to support all features of Java EE 6, making development of Java EE 6 compliant application even quicker and simpler. This book will guide you through all the NetBeans features that make development of enterprise Java EE 6 applications a breeze.